2025-04-15
The government as set up by the founding fathers was a long way removed from today's apparatus of tax and control, currently receiving long overdue pruning at the hands of the Trump administration.
And yet it is still only one branch of the three "city states" - The Vatican, The City of London, and Washington District of Columbia, that set out to control the world.
The Brownstone Institute reviews the development, some might say the corruption, that took place over many years; but that perhaps had its roots in the aftermath of the American Civil War, an event that brought the republic to its knees financially as well as physically, and allowed the British Crown to begin the process of re-establishing control with the assassination of President Lincoln.
This control was eventually settled under President Wilson's tenure in the form with which we are only too familiar today:
"What can be verified in the historical record is that during Wilson’s administration, several mechanisms were indeed established that fundamentally altered the relationship between citizens and government – including the Federal Reserve System, income taxation, and later the Social Security system with its universal numerical identification" - the very same systems that we in the UK readily recognise.
How all this came about, and how it may perchance be shortly undone(?) we have documented here previously.
We welcome this analysis by the Brownstone Institute, which covers the transformation from a more scholarly angle.
See also: The Corporate Takeover We Were Never Taught
