It wasn't until the Jackson administration that civil bankruptcy laws replaced civil imprisonment as the remedy for defaults in many states.
That's right, civil imprisonment.
what do you think, as a percentage of a man’s annual income, the forefathers took in the form of taxes? 1%? 2%. Whereas today, after adding up income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, fuel taxes, use taxes, school taxes, medical device taxes, social security taxes, capital gains taxes, special tax levies, etc, it is closer to 50% if not over 50%. Most of our founders would not have been OK with that. they went to war over less. And all of this is irrelevant BS which ignores the fact that stealing a man’s home over a $136 debt is criminal.