SPEAKER_02

And this is why Ron Paul ran for Congress.

It was when Richard Nixon took us off the gold standard.

And then he was like, this is going to lead to big government.

This is going to be the era of big government.

So he was going to run to try to stop that.

And he was completely right.

This is what has really destroyed everything is that there is just no... And it's a big part of the reason why I'm so angry about all these wars too, because it's all related.

You know, the Federal Reserve was created in 1913 or the Federal Reserve Act was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1913.

And then in 1914, I think, is when it actually got up and running.

And in 1914 is when the income tax was passed, also signed into law by Woodrow Wilson.

And three years later is World War One.

You know, like three years or American entry into World War I. So it's like this is the banking system and the tax system are very like interrelated with the warfare state.

Like you need this stuff in order to fight wars.

And.

Even just over the last 25 years, we've spent close to $10 trillion on wars.

And they didn't tax the American people for that.

They know they couldn't tax us enough to pay.

We would put an end to it.

If they tried to raise everybody's taxes enough to come up with $10 trillion because we want to go fight regime change wars all over the Middle East, the American people would have been like, no, we're not doing that.

But they didn't do that.