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Courageous Lion's avatar

First off, CONGRESS was tasked with "coining money" not the President. So there is your first Constitutional violation by St. Lincoln. Second of all, unless your a total illiterate idiot, the statement in the Constitution about COINING MONEY is not the same as PRINTING greenbacks. So great, once he had violated it it was only a few years later that the whole economic system of these united States was flipped on it's head with the creation of the Feral Reserve. No, that's not a typo.

" I'm not certain, but I think having the Treasury issue greenbacks complies with the Constitution's intent that the "Congress;" i.e, the "government," shall have power to coin money." Let me help you out. You can be CERTAIN that the treasury issuance of greenbacks was in DIRECT violation of the two provisions that Judge Roger Sherman had instituted in the US Constitution to which was the understanding that the door has been slammed in the face of paper money forever. Read his booklet that is linked to.

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"TAXES on the NATIONAL LEVEL pay for NOTHING. They are there for the purpose of CONTROL and to take purchasing power away from the slaves so they cannot compete as much for goods and services in the marketplace."

Hm. I just read this today,

"Taxation is increasingly a just a mechanism to provide economic incentives and subsidies for various politically popular activities -- think, mortgage interest rate deductions, health insurance deductions, child care credits, Obamacare subsidies, progressive rates focused on achieving income equality, etc."

http://disq.us/p/1z9wfea

It was a comment to an article by Murray Rothbard republished today on Mises Wire. Rothbard wrote:

"There has also been a great amount of useless controversy about which activity of government imposes the burden on the private sector: taxation or government spending. It is actually futile to separate them, since they are both stages in the same process of burden and redistribution."

What are taxes? I thought I knew. Now I'm afraid that I have to think about that all weekend.

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