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1913 was a VERY Bad Year
By JB Williams
Prior to 1913, there was no federal income tax, the states had
rights and representation in Washington DC, there was no Federal Reserve Bank
and the federal government lived under the enumerated powers afforded it within
the US Constitution. What a difference one year can make…
Almost a hundred years later, it’s clear that the policies
established in 1913 must be revoked in order to restore power to the people and
the states. But can the American people get the Genie back in the bottle?
The
History
of the US Tax System can be
summed up in one paragraph…
“Prior to the enactment of the income tax, most citizens were
able to pursue their private economic affairs without the direct knowledge of
the government. Individuals earned their wages, businesses earned their profits,
and wealth was accumulated and dispensed with little or no interaction with
government entities.”
Passage of the 16th
Amendment to the Constitution would forever change life in America and not for
the better.
The 16th
-
The Congress shall have power to lay
and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without
apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or
enumeration.
It’s hard to imagine how this amendment could have been
written any broader, or why 36 states would agree to such an open ended federal
power to strip citizens of their rightful earnings via taxation without
representation and with literally no boundaries or limits to how far the federal
government could and ultimately would go in their effort to buy the votes of
some with the assets of others.
Since 1913, the federal tax code has been used as a primary
tool of leftist social engineering in which the people have been forced to fund
a government they no longer recognize and no longer support. The US Congress has
a mere 11% approval rating today and the Executive branch is supported only by
the 28% of citizens who benefit personally by the robbing of fellow citizens.
The states are now fiscal dependents of the federal government
and the federal government is a twenty trillion pound ape trampling through the
rose garden of American life, and nobody seems to have any clue how to reign it
all in.
Further, thanks to the passage of the 17th
Amendment also passed in 1913, the states no longer have representation in
Washington DC. Once again, what seemed like a simple sentence and a good idea to
some at the time has since been used by the federal government to eliminate
state’s sovereignty and rights.
The 17th
– “The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each
state, elected by the people thereof, for six years;”
It is referred to as the “supremacy clause” today, a wholly
anti-American notion that the federal government has unlimited “supreme” power
over the states and the people. Without states representation in DC due to the
17th
Amendment, the Fed is free to run wild and it is.
Prior to the passage of the 17th,
the U.S. Senate was the legislative body that represented the interests of the
states, namely state sovereignty and state’s rights. The 17th
eliminated both by eliminating state’s representation and reducing the Senate to
just an extension of the people’s House of Representatives.
The Senate was elected by each state legislature and obligated
to serve each state’s interest as a result. Unlike the House of Representatives
in which local representatives known by local voters are elected by their
neighbors to represent the will of constituents in their home districts -
members of the Senate who are not known or accessible to most voters in the
state also represent the will of constituents they don’t know and with whom they
are no longer in touch. This leaves the state itself unrepresented.
As a result, the federal government is now engaged in
running roughshod over state sovereignty and rights as a daily event. The recent
situation in Arizona where the Fed sued the state for attempting to enforce
existing immigration laws that the Fed refuses to enforce is but one glaring
example of federal tyranny made possible by the 17th
Amendment.
The Federal Reserve
On the heels of
the banking
Panic of 1907,
Democrats were elected into full control of both congressional chambers. With
full control over the legislative process they wasted no time shifting the focus
of the federal government from the “enumerated powers” to federal power and
social engineering.
“Financial panics and bank runs were all too common during
the 19th and early 20th centuries. Some were more severe than
others, but most followed the same general pattern. The misfortunes of a
prominent speculator would undermine public confidence in the financial
system. Panic-stricken investors would then scramble to cut their losses.
And because it wasn’t uncommon for speculators to double as bank officials,
worried depositors would rush to withdraw their money from any bank
associated with a troubled speculator.”
The Federal Reserve System was established to provide a
stabilizing factor to occasional extreme volatility in the financial markets,
usually caused by over-reaching speculative trading by only a handful of eager
investors.
The new system emerged from a private sector investment by
then 70 year old J.P. Morgan which stalled the growing run on banks caused by
the financial trouble of the New York Knickerbocker Trust. JD Rockefeller
stepped in to help out, along with a few other well-heeled financiers.
Just as Obama and Democrats are doing today, democrats tried
to saddle Republican President Teddy Roosevelt with the blame for the banking
panic.
“One person who didn’t seek advantage in the crisis was
William Jennings Bryan, the Democrats’ perennial presidential candidate. In
an impromptu speech to the assembled crowd" at the Binghamton, New York
train station, he came to the defense of President Theodore Roosevelt, a
Republican. "I notice," said Bryan, "that one of the officers of the bank
that just closed-its doors yesterday attributed it to President Roosevelt.
That is not the reason. Don’t blame the Sheriff, but the horse thief.”
It wasn’t the
Federal Government that stopped the run on banks, it was private investors.
However, the formation of the Federal Reserve System that followed would once
again give the federal government power it could not be trusted to hold.
From that moment
forward, it would not be private investors who bailed out failing banks, but
American taxpayers. Even worse, there would be no end to the printing of money
and accumulation of public debt once the federal government via the Federal
Reserve had what would be treated as a bottomless well from which to draw cash.
Beginning in
2001, the Bush administration tried for seven years to convince congressional
Democrats including Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd that there was impending
trouble with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but to no avail.
It was the
Federal Reserve and American taxpayers who would be held accountable for the
misdeeds of Democrat incompetency and a refusal to address the growing mortgage
problem until there were no good options left.
In the end, the
Obama administration would drive the nation from $10 trillion in debt to $14
trillion in debt in just their first two years in office, with trillions more in
unfunded social spending aimed at propping up the failing labor unions that will
keep them in political power.
1913 was one of
the worst years in American history as the people thereafter became fiscally
responsible for the unethical actions of a few in banking and government, the
states lost their representation in the Senate, state sovereignty and rights,
the Fed grabbed “supreme powers” and the Federal Reserve became the arm of
government that would sink the nation in a mountain of debt.
In 2010,
Democrats now control both houses of congress, the White House, the press and
the courts. What happened in 1913 is nothing compared to what Democrats have in
store for America now.
Before the people
and the states can control this nation again, they will have to undo all the
damage done in 1913 which allowed further damage to be done during the via FDR’s
Raw Socialism Deal.
The 1st
– 2nd and 10th
Amendment initiatives underway in the states today are necessary due to the
events of 1913. Reverse 1913 and most of the problem is easily solved.
SOURCES
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml
http://www.bos.frb.org/about/pubs/panicof1.pdf
JB Williams
www.JB-Williams.com
www.FreedomForce.us
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in
politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato