Sorry, I think your time-frame is a bit off....by almost 100 years.
16th & 17th, Fed Res Act, SS Act; here’s where it all started for us (Though, I could also point it was the Civil War when we ‘lost’ our Republic)
Hhh?
I made no comment on when this downward spiral STARTED, merely commenting on the fact that as of May, 2012, the USSA is every bit as socialist as France.