Freedom Force International  The Issues  by G. Edward Griffin
2008 January 9  Although it would seem that the Internal Revenue
Service and the Federal Reserve System are unrelated,
appearances can be misleading. It is true that they are separate
creatures – one that collects money and one that creates money –
but upon examination, we find they are fraternal twins with
common parentage and instinct. They both have grown to
gargantuan proportions since their birth in 1913 and have become
insatiable predators, dining on the productivity of the common
man. In the case of the IRS, the perpetual feast is consumed as
taxes, taken directly from our earnings and savings. In the case
of the Fed, it is taken indirectly as inflation, but the net
effect is exactly the same.  Consider the following facts:  1.
Both were enacted into law in the same year.  2. Both laws were
drafted and sponsored by the same politicians clustered around
the Morgan and Rockefeller banking dynasties.  3. Both were sold
to the public as measures