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Originally posted by urbsdad6 If Congress has the right to coin money and the power to lay and collect taxes uniformly throughout the United States, why do we bow down to the Federal Reserve (a private corporation not part of the Congress, Government, etc., etc.) and the IRS (strong arm of the Federal Reserve and never completely ratified by the proper number of states (http://www.prisonplanet.com/index.html see video interview with former IRS agent Joe Banister)? Also (but off topic) the simple solution to Social Security is to remove the $250,000 cap on earnings and make the wealthy pay into it and maybe we could take the burden off the middle class and even get some benefits for the Vets. Just posing some questions.
Doc Urb
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If I may offer this response... I never said I was, am or ever will be a Federalist.
In fact, in a certain way, I wish NOBODY was a Federalist!
Don't think we "bow down" to the Federal Reserve exactly.
People need to remember that after our revolution, there did not exist any uniform currency among the original states, nor was there a national bank, nor could the war debts be paid, nor were the enlisted Veterans getting their pay for quite a long time after the shooting stopped and the amputations had healed.
In addition to which, certain representatives of the people (Patrick Henry excluded) at Philadelphia took it upon themselves to create a Constitution in "closed session", rather than to reform our Articles of Confederation, which is what they had been sent there to do in the first place.
We eventually ended up fighting our own brutal War of Rebellion (aka "Civil War") over those decisions... and, by some lights, the wrong side "won."
So, now we are with the Union, and we carry her blessed flag.