Given the current state of what passes for education in the USTUTBA (United States That Used To Be America), I'm not even surprised anymore that there are people that don't know this. Now you can tell them the bald-faced truth right to their faces and they still won't believe you. The Federal Reserve (a private bank, owned by the Rothschild family and no more federal than Federal Express) was created in order to switch the USTUTBA to an interest generating, debt based, fiat currency that they controlled. The income tax was created at the same time to pay the interest on that debt, and the IRS is simply the collection agency for the Rothschilds to collect that debt, and is also paid for by you. There were four wealthy American industrialists opposing "The Federal Reserve Act" which created all of this and made it law. They were keeping it from happening to us. And they all four died at the same time, on the Titanic. How convenient for the Rothschilds. Refresh my memory: Did you ever get to vote on any of this? You are born into foreign debt and will likely die *still* in debt. The system is functioning exactly as it was designed to and most people will go their whole life never realizing that they have been farmed, like cows. Is it any wonder that when you hear the elites talk about us that it is always with such contempt in their voice? (Just look at the comments if you want to be sad. A mix of jew shills saying variations of "Nuh-uh!" and ignorant, smooth-brained, no-nothings repeating them.)