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2025-03-24 Government Corruption

Eighty Years of Unconstitutional Wars Required Income Tax & Corrupt Congress

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-03-24 08:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 "The PSRRC learned from the Civil War that while tariffs and excise taxes funded the government quite well in peacetime, additional fiat money (Greenbacks) were required to fund a war. The income tax provides that funding."

Not to mention the Federal government was no where near the Leviathan monstrosity it is today, and there weren't any social programs to fund. What are the unfunded liabilities of the US gum'ment today, a few hundred trillion or so? I forget, but it's up there.

As for taxes, you can thank Thomas "Woodrow" Wilson and his trusty sidekicks for the introduction of a federal income tax and the Federal Reserve Act, both in/around 1913. That enabled a lot of brave Doughboys to find their final resting places in France. (Yes, France...sickening.)

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-03-24 08:34|| 2025-03-24 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Constitutionally-required Declaration of War

Note well. Jefferson waged war against the Barbary Pirates without a declaration of war. The entire frontier campaigns against the indigenous population was waged without declaration of war. The Philippine operations against those indigenous peoples was done without a declaration of war. The Vera Cruz and Pershing Expeditions in Mexico were done without a declaration of war.

The big difference is that those operated from a concept we inherited from Parliament. The purse strings were controlled by Congress. It could cut off funds if it sought to. It would do that in the 1970 by cutting funding to aid/assist Vietnam after our withdraw.

In 1948, that which would become the Swamp decided to become the World's Policeman, re-initiating the peacetime draft. With it came the costs both in its impact upon the finances of the state and the liberties of the people, as the Swamp turned inward to keep control and power at any cost.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-24 12:16|| 2025-03-24 12:16|| Front Page Top

#3 the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC).
What a creative antisemitic slur!
Usually those people can't even spell.

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