“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
 

 The subject here is revenue. There cab be no revenue with-out taxes and no taxes without money. The Fed said their system "works only with credit."--Keeping Out Money (their credit) Healthy.

In January 1944, the head of the New York Fed read a paper saying "taxation for revenue is obsolete." You can search: Beardsley Ruml for that but you need the comments of the late great Alan Stang: www.morpix.biz/x17