The Progressive Income tax and the Federal Reserve System were implemented to harness the economy of the US and turn it into a money printing machine for “the right people”. It did this while turning free people into wage slaves
. These two events drove people off of their family farms and into the factories. Turning people into a driver of “others” wealth instead of their own.
My Grandfather had a homestead where he prospered until the collapse of the money supply, called popularly “The Great Depression”. He and many others ended up selling their land to pay taxes instituted and raised by politicians to give money to the poor.
My own Father ended up working for the CCC and supporting the family, but his dad couldn’t buy a job. He was not who they were looking to employ, my dad was 15 and malleable. He ended up a lifetime Democrat minion and fan of CNN/MSNBC. His Father, old and worn out at 40, was full of hate for the government. In just one government caused money scare, this nation went from freedom to slavery.
Bingo. A controlled and centrally planned money supply will ultimately benefit the controllers, planners, and their cronies. An uncontrolled money supply, such as gold, favors the common man, as it can only be taken from them by direct force. Jefferson called it the money of democracy. Our Federal Reserve debt-based system is designed to steal people's labor and savings, and turn it over to government and bankers. And people wonder why we have increasing wealth inequality....