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Nationalist forces worked ceaselessly to consolidate power away from the various states and into a strong central government, particularly since the Internal War of the 1860s, a war that was substantially about this very issue.

In settlement of that war, the nationalists consolidated power by passing an amendment to the Constitution for the direct election of members of the Senate. Previously those members were elected by the legislatures of the various states.

The United States of the Constitution of 1789 no longer exists. The present Constitution lacks a 10th Amendment. It also lacks one that restrains eminent domain. The Commerce and Welfare clauses have infinite implied powers. All these factors conspire to allow the federal government any power it cares to take up. Indeed, it has even taken the power to decide who is a “person”.

It is now a Leviathan, an entity that exists for its own purposes, and whose citizens exist to supply its needs.

To the list of reasons let me also add the Amendment allowing the taxation of income, however the government will define it, the adoption of fiat money and the Federal Reserve. Thus government gives itself the ability to inflate the currency, to define numeric gains as “income”, and to levy a tax on such. Further, government defines “income” worldwide, so a US Person must report and pay tax on any income no matter where he worked and no matter what the source.

Leviathan has such an appetite for money that he has made his own citizens tax slaves.