And now DSA wants the state to seize everything.
No worries, we got John Thune.
1913 Federal Reserve, 16th (income tax) and 17th (direct election of Senators) was the beginning of the end of the original USA Republic. It soon metastasized. The USA officially went off any connection to the gold standard in 1971.
You then must go back to the GREAT THEFT of 1933. After FDR took office in 1933, one of his first executive orders (6102, 6260) was to outlaw the possession of gold (coins and bullion) by American citizens. Using the Great Depression as a “convenient” crisis, his brazenly (not just unconstitutional but anti-constitutional) orders robbed the citizenry of real wealth and substituted it with paper money. The government paid folks the then current gold rate ($20.67 per ounce at the time) for the confiscated gold. A year later in 1934, the government increased the price to $35 per ounce, effectively increasing the gold on the Federal Reserve’s balance sheets by 69 percent. This increase in assets allowed the Federal Reserve to further inflate the money supply. This was the greatest theft of people’s real wealth since Genghis Khan’s Mongol hordes ravaged Asia and Europe in the 12th Century. The government held the $35 per ounce price until August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon severed any relationship of the Dollar to gold, completely abandoning the gold standard. Inflation has been Fed policy ever since! Gold is true wealth. Paper is not.