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By C. Daniel Baker | Published January 4, 2013 | Full size is 620 × 480 pixels

Congress has an excise tax worth $13.50 per gallon on all rum produced in or imported to the United States. Most of that money is transferred to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, who use the revenue to support their rum industries. The cliff deal extends this tax for another year.

Congress has an excise tax worth $13.50 per gallon on all rum produced in or…