trolled money serves as the most efficient
basis for taxation. Anytime money moves,
its movement can trigger a moment to reinforce the hegemony of the state. Whether
it is perpetual indenture by citizenship or
reification of trade and the restraint thereof, nothing serves incumbent power as
pervasively as the control - and the assent
of the controlled - of money.
Barely a century after the American colonies revolted against what they saw as the
tyrannical British impulse to levy taxes for
the explicit purpose of maintaining an occupying military force they turned to taxation regime to pay for the Civil War. The
consolidation of the banking and monetary
system in 1913 with the formation of the
Federal Reserve was accompanied by the
16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
which gave Congress the authority to levy
taxes and paved the way for the financing of a century of World Wars. And to
be sure, in their haste to impose income
tax, the government came to the painful realization that taxing to excess those
who were wealthy was a risky proposition.
With general taxation came massive concessions to the extremely wealthy who, if
willing to participate in the encumbrance of
the general population, would be given the
capability to shield their wealth through tax
deferral and outright avoidance. It is no
surprise that money - not personal character and integrity - define the players on the
political landscape in much of the Occidental world.
Emancipation from the monetary addiction is the ultimate act of liberty and, when
suggested or practiced, is met with fear
from the enslaved and suppression by the
threatened state. The mere suggestion
that one can act and engage in community
and elect to give and receive value that
is not denominated is received as treason
both by the oppressor and the oppressed.
Money: Network Intelligence
Through the contrivance of monetary unit
reductionism, agencies of control can understand the associations of people and
their engagements. One of the primary