In 1791 Americans experienced taxation with representation in the form
of a tax on distilled liquors. The tax was ill received by many
Americans in western PA and in particular farmers who lived there who
were just about everyone who lived there. In 1794 the federal
government used military force to enforce the tax on the farmers of
western PA. This situation has come to be known as the Whiskey
Rebellion. This was an example of an unpopular tax that was imposed by
elected members of congress who were supposedly representatives of the
PEOPLE. Thus it was taxation with representation.
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