President Trump’s administration seems to be engaged in a secret war — a war on alcohol. First, they increased tariffs on aluminum, and those increases are causing the cost of beer production and therefore beer to rise. Now they’re putting tariffs on Irish and Scotch whiskeys. They are also considering new regulatory rules that are so onerous that in just one example they will force the entire whiskey industry to change their standard barrel size. Less whiskey per-barrel means higher whiskey costs.

We won’t stand for this! It doesn’t make economic sense. It doesn’t make safety sense. Changing from the industry standard 53 gallons per-barrel to 50 gallons per-barrel isn’t going to change much except harm an industry and increase prices.