Thread by @APhilosophae

I wrote about this statistic in "A Mother's Wit" which is on my substack linked here. The following is an excerpt. culturalhusbandry.substack.com/p/a-mothers-wit

The Chart demonstrates how the US Federal government raised revenue from its inception until 2016. We can see as the concept of Jeffersonian America waned and diminished, within a lifetime the ability of the Federal...

government to tax its citizens in any manner it wished skyrocketed. The Jeffersonian understanding of America was alive in Andrew Jackson as he destroyed the Bank of the United States.

For those not aware, Jacksons actions were the equivalent of destroying today’s Federal Reserve. Again, demonstrating here the idea that we are not bound by perpetual government, and that when we take the time to consider a common thing that may be thought of as good, ...

we may actually see it as it is. The Federal government was practically out of debt from this time period until the 1860’s and the outbreak of the American Civil War. The debt it did incur was almost insignificant.

In 1860 the Gross Domestic Product in 1860 was roughly $5.3Billion dollars, and the National Debt was a paltry $64.8 Million dollars. Not only was this small debt a hot button topic of the time, but it should also make us step back to examine our own national debt as created...

by what we now see as a toxic and irresponsible federal government. In April 2021, the public debt of the United States was around 28.17 trillion U.S. dollars, over 3.2 trillion more than a year earlier, when it was around 24.9 trillion U.S. dollars.

Our Gross Domestic Product for 2020 was only 21.4 trillion U.S. dollars. We can see clearly that this is not enough to keep up with our debt.

This unbelievable shift of Federal Debt to Gross National Product is directly due to this fundamental misunderstanding we as a people have with our relationship with the federal government, and the federal governments incorrect understanding of its own powers.

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