12-04-2019, 09:33 AM | #521 |
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If the colonies were manufacturing and selling drugs, don't you think that the UK would try to tax the hell out of them? And when that didn't work, would ban illegal trade of them?
So in this worldline, the restriction on trading in psychoactive substances was a major factor in the revolutionary war, and was fresh on the minds of the founders. There was probably other weirdness that lead to a vast diversity of substances in the new world's economy. |
11-20-2022, 04:23 PM | #522 | |
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11-20-2022, 05:48 PM | #523 |
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Given human nature, I would guess that this resulted in illegal or loophole-abusing alcohol manufacture/distribution until they stopped... as well as common folk just sucking it up and paying the outrageous cost, since they did have a convenient way to get it legally, unlike folk in the US during Prohibition.
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11-21-2022, 05:55 AM | #524 |
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Yes! Why not?
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11-21-2022, 06:20 AM | #525 | |
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Lots of states taxed for example salt (which everyone used) for the money, not because they wanted to restrict use. Liquor excise taxes were a big deal everywhere - one side effect of Prohibition in the US was that a lot of jurisdictions lost half their tax revenues overnight, and many states seized on the fairly new idea of income taxes to replace them.
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11-21-2022, 06:28 AM | #526 | |
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11-21-2022, 09:39 AM | #527 | |
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For your Maxine's trip you could use Josephine Baker for your closer but I'm not so sure what's in the lead off position.
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11-21-2022, 01:42 PM | #528 |
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Here's an interesting valuable. The rules of Ancient Egyptian games. Senet looks cool, but what are the real rules? Is Mehen fun?
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11-21-2022, 02:04 PM | #529 | |
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(While I've only seen the Abridged version, I believe "Ancient Egyptian game made into a modern sensation" is the basis for "Duel Monsters" in the Yu-Gi-Oh show)
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11-22-2022, 12:53 PM | #530 |
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Don't know if this is what David J was referring to, but the famous Gin Craze of the 1700s triggered several peices of legislation aimed at curbing the public menace of widespread addiction. It definitely had a classist element because the concern was the visible poor committing various outrages while guzzling rotgut gin, not the wealthy doing the same thing in more rarified locations. It wasn't about revenue as such, though I'm sure that was a side benefit, but rather social engineering.
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