"Give me control of a nation's currency and I care
not who makes the laws "
- Baron Rothschild
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ENTER THE INCOME TAX
Until 1913, tariffs on trade furnished
most of the money needed to fund the federal government. Then Congress
passed the Underwood trade bill, which canceled most tariffs. Suddenly,
Congress claimed it had to find another tax source. Senator Aldrich co-sponsored
the 16th Amendment creating the Income Tax. Soon after passage by
Congress in 1913, Philander Knox issued the odd announcement that, "The
16th Amendment seems to have been ratified."
Doubting ratification of the 16th Amendment
by three-fourths of the states, Bill Benson and M. J. "Red" Beckman traveled
to 48 states (Alaska and Hawaii were not states in 1913). They got certified
copies of all ratification documents from each of the legislatures, (17,000
documents) and, in a two-volume work, proved that not one state had
legally ratified the 16th Amendment as written. See:
www.thelawthatneverwas.com
That isn't all. "The
Internal Revenue Service was never authorized by Congress." - Public
Notice - Media Bypass, March, 1997 - An unconstitutional act is enforced
by an unauthorized agency.
Withholding taxes, an emergency
measure initiated only for World War II, are still collected.
Income taxes pay only Federal
Reserve debt and IRS expenses. "Income taxes do not fund any government
function." - Page 12, President's Private Sector Survey on Cost
Control, January 15, 1984 - Library of Congress.
PREVIOUS FEDERAL BANKING HISTORY
Alexander Hamilton lobbied for the first privately-owned
federal bank. However, Thomas Jefferson opposed it writing, "If
the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their
currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations
that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property,
until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
occupied." In 1789, ignoring Jefferson's warning, Congress chartered
the bank for 20 years.
In 1792, Congress specified that only
gold and silver were lawful money. Owners sent these precious metals
to the U.S. Mint to be made into coins. This money was spent into
the economy and remained in circulation. Every dollar improved the
economy, and, in an exchange of goods for money, the seller received gold
or silver coins. The U.S. had a privately-owned national bank and
lawful money at the same time.
In 1811, Thomas Jefferson, then
president, refused to renew the bank's charter. In a letter to James
Madison he had written, "I believe that banking institutions are more
dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
MISTAKE NUMBER TWO
In 1816 Congress chartered a second
federal bank for 20 years. When the charter was nearing renewal in
1836, National Bank President Biddle, threatened President Jackson, that
if the charter was not renewed he would destroy the U.S. economy.
But Jackson was not one to be intimidated., he overrode Congress, and closed
the bank commenting, "The bold effort the present bank had made to control
the government... are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American
people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or
the establishment of another like it."
So, for 76 years there was no
federal bank, gold was $20 an ounce, and Congress adhered to Article 1,
Section 8, of the Constitution; it regulated money.
1913- THEY NEVER LEARN
In "From Farm Boy to
Financier," Frank Vanderlip wrote, "Since it would be fatal to Senator
Aldrich's plan to have it known that he was calling on anybody from Wall
Street to help him in preparing his report and bill, precautions were taken...
Asked to go were Henry Davison, Paul Warburg, Ben Strong and myself.
From Washington came A. Piatt Andrew Jr.... We were told to leave our names
behind us... We were instructed to come one at a time and as unobtrusively
as possible to the railroad terminal... where Senator Aldrich's private
car would be in readiness... Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen...
If it were to be exposed publicly that our particular group had written
a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress...
although the Aldrich Federal Reserve plan was defeated its essential points
were contained in the plan that was finally adopted..."
The Fed was chartered to
end economic fluctuations. However, Congressman Lindbergh, the aviator's
father, disagreed stating, "The new (Federal Reserve) bill will
create inflation whenever the trusts want a period of inflation... they
figure they can unload the stocks on the people at high prices during the
excitement and then bring on a panic and buy them back at low prices...
The people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only
a few years removed..." - Congressional Record, Dec. 22, 1913
1929 - THE CRASH
Lindbergh had been right, only 16 years
passed before the U.S. entered the worst financial recession in its history,
the Great Depression.
Even though many economists state the
depression was caused by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which increased duties
on imports, the Smoot-Hawley bill was not signed into law until April of
1930, eight months after the crash.
But not all believed tariffs were at fault.
"When business in the United States underwent a mild contraction
in 1927, the Federal Reserve created more paper currency in the hope of
forestalling any possible bank reserve shortage... More disastrous, however,
was the Federal Reserve's attempt to assist Great Britain... The excess
credit spilled over into the stock market- triggering a fantastic speculative
boom... As a result the American economy collapsed." - Gold and
Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Federal Reserve.
Still others believed that the crash was planned.
"It was not an accident, it was a carefully contrived occurrence.
The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair
here so they might emerge as rulers of us all." - Louis B. McFadden,
Chairman, House Banking Committee, 75th Congress. (Prior to investigating
the Fed, McFadden died of a suspicious "heart failure" after food poisoning).
The Fed has never been audited, or investigated!
Concerned about the 1987 stock
market plunge, the Fed now has an illegal "Plunge Protection Team"
- (AP 10/17/97) to buy stocks if a massive sell-off threatens the stock
market.
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
America had suffered panics and recessions
before but had always quickly recovered. Now there was no sign of
recovery. Few Americans realized that the Fed's debt money was destroying
the economy. Except for gold and silver coins, all of the money in
circulation was borrowed. Consequently, when companies and brokerage
houses went bankrupt, banks, dependent on repayment of the loans, began
to fail. Depositors withdrew their savings, banks recalled loans,
no one was borrowing, and paper currency began to disappear.
Then, in 1933 President Roosevelt confiscated
gold coins. The government bought the coins at $20 an ounce, and
then, just six months later, revalued gold to $32 an ounce. The government
had just conned its own citizens during those desperate times.
Except for silver coins, this left only paper
currency in circulation, trapping the economy in a vicious circle.
Worried, people bought only necessities, causing companies to lay off more
workers and cut borrowing. This reduced the amount of currency in
circulation, creating more thrift. In 1927 the M1 money supply (currency
plus demand deposits) had been $26.10 billion, but by 1933, instead of
increasing, it had decreased by almost 25% to $19.91 billion. (Historical
Statistics of U.S. Colonial Times to 1970 - U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
- Debt money had come home to roost!
The government started programs to pump money
into the economy, building dams, roads, parks, etc. But this didn't
compare to the money generated by a flourishing industrial nation It was
only the massive spending of the Second World War that ended the Great
Depression.
PUTTING IN THE FINAL COFFIN NAILS
Since then, our currency has steadily
deteriorated. In 1965, President Johnson removed silver from coins.
And, in 1978, Congress took us off the gold standard, but the definition
of lawful money has not changed: "Lawful Money... to mean gold and silver
coin of the United States." - U.S. Code, Title 12, Section 152..
We now have fiat money (currency not backed by anything of true value), which can be devalued at any time. Gold, $20 an ounce in 1933, is now several hundred dollars an ounce. It has been the devaluation of the dollar, not inflation, which has reduced its buying power. But Congressmen are content, knowing that with fiat money they don't have to raise taxes, the Fed will provide the money and just put us deeper in debt.
"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to
the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and
its speaker a raving lunatic."
- anonymous
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