The Canadians had a sort of prohibition of their own, but they weren’t about to lose sight of quick profits. Lots of distilleries were conveniently built on the shores of the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario. The wise Canadians, and especially the Bronfmans, got a law passed which allowed the manufacture of whiskey, “for export only.” Why? Because the river was less than a mile across, and Detroit was on the opposite shore. Hundreds of small boats regularly carried legally made hooch across the river for Americans. In winter when the river froze, trucks and cars drove effortlessly across the river to buy whiskey from Canadians. Stupid laws will never keep people from doing and buying what they please. Many millionaires were created by the Detroit River smugglers and Canadian distillers. $250 million a year in whole, sound dollars were illegally imported at that location alone.
After prohibition, moonshining and bootlegging didn’t stop. The eternally smart D.C. Gang placed huge taxes on whiskey, which still remain. $9 per gallon then, which was exorbitant. The rum runners and back woods distillers simply kept on doing what they had been accustomed to doing since 1918, and that was making and selling white lightning. The revenuers increased in numbers, and still roam the backwoods of America, trying to stop people from doing what they wish to do, because of huge taxes making legal alcohol too costly. Rum runners got ever faster cars to out run the revenuers, and NASCAR, is a direct result and offspring of the fast cars rum runners used to outrun the revenuers. Before prohibition, there was absolutely no organized crime in America. Now, no one knows how to stop it. Moonshiners are merely tax avoiders. High taxes make for avoiders of all sorts, who wish to stay afloat, rather than being swept away in the hundreds of taxes and government caused inflation by endless printing of the failing dollar. It’s so simple!