What Does Money Laundering Look Like? And What Did the IRS Do Before the Creation of Income Tax?
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Income tax was a civil wartime measure, but the government never relinquishes power.
It's not just about money. It's about deconstructing the western culture and society. Art plays a huge role in providing cohesion and relating meaning in society and that's its main historical function. Aesthetics is downstream to ethics. When absolute objective truth is replaced with relativism and no real standards of the good or the beautiful apply you get random shit like dadaism, Pollock and other abominations of our modern and post-modern times.
To put it simply - ugly and meaningless art and architecture are a form of psy op siege warfare. And since it's a tool of cultural degeneration guess who's been pushing it the most?
There was no IRS before income tax
I looked into it right before making this post:
https://iask.ai/?mode=question&options%5Bdetail_level%5D=detailed&q=what+did+the+irs+do+before+income+tax%3F
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service
And from a conversation I had while at work today. It's only meant to tax corporations not individuals working for those corporations. As We earn wages, and corporation takes in income.
That is how it was supposed to be, yes.
But then the government bonded the people to the banks, and presto income tax.
To put it another way, the government started borrowing money using the people as collateral. You paying the government's loans is what income tax is.
Just a little at first, then a little more, then a little more. Then it became completely untenable, and they started debasing the currency instead. That turns taxation into inflation and makes it "invisible."
Quite the magic trick.