Our country has been paying for it since 1913. The descent has ramped up in the last 20 years.
Yep, the worst things to come out of the early 1900s was the Federal Reserve (between 1789 and 1913, the inflation rate for the entire 124 years was NEGATIVE 20%. Since then it has the inflation rate has been nearly 2500%. The 16th Amendment, the income tax, which at one time was an incredible 92%. The 17th Amendment which took the states’ representation away and created what is essentially a super House. And the 18th Amendment which instituted Prohibition and by almost any measure, was a dismal failure.