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The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, or TTB, is a little-known arm of the Treasury Department. The agency will continue to process taxes from existing permit holders, but applications for anything new are in limbo.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/federal-shutdown-throws-permitting-process-for-new-beer-permit-into-limbo/2013/10/09/861f2430-30a0-11e3-9ddd-bdd3022f66ee_story.htmlFor God's sake, let's fund Obamacare now! Either that, or let's gut the abortive sodomy-resultant offspring of the ATF and Treasury that has authoritah to screw with beer in the first place:Feels like Ayn Rand's Directive 10-289 is in place. No new businesses, and all old businesses may not shut down.