Alcohol smuggling in the state of Virginia causes losses of $20 million a year in tax revenue to “moonshining”, a home-made and illegally smuggled whiskey.
According to the Economist, the whiskey is “cheaply made in 800-gallon stills, mot of it smuggled to poor inner cities and sold at half the price of its legal counterparts, avoiding state and federal taxes which run at roughly $25 per gall (3.8 litres) of whiskey.”
Source: “Moonshine: Lighting strikes,” The Economist, April 18, 2009.
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Went to the movie Lawless and am wondering if there was a family back in the 1930′s by the name of Bonaduer(not sure of the spelling). And how true are the movie version and if there is a book about that family?