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Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. This amendment gave Congress the right to enact an
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income tax, but income was NOT defined as payment received for labor. The 16 amendment did
NOT create a wage tax. Nevertheless, the government and Internal Revenue Service would later
declare the Sixteenth Amendment to have given Congress the authority to implement a wage tax on
the American populace. Thus 1913 became a very dark year for the citizens of America. It was the
ultimate year of the enslavement of the people by the money powers.

Opposing the money powers is a dangerous act. Another early opponent of the Federal Reserve was
Senator Robert M. La Follette. A Wikipedia article on Senator La Follette states, “La Follette has
been called ‘arguably the most important and recognized leader of the opposition to the growing
dominance of corporations over the Government.’” The money powers are the chief promoters of
war. Senator La Follette stated, “Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic,
ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.”

Senator La Follette experienced the ruthless tactics of the money powers when he stood firmly
against entry into World War I. He was one of only 6 U.S. Senators to vote against entry into the
war. He was treated slanderously in the media and among other politicians. In a speech before the
Senate He stated the following:

Six Members of the Senate and 50 Members of the House voted against the declaration of war.
Immediately there was let loose upon those Senators and Representatives a flood of invective and
abuse from newspapers and individuals who had been clamoring for war, unequaled, I believe, in
the history of civilized society. Prior to the declaration of war every man who had ventured to
oppose our entrance into it had been condemned as a coward or worse, and even the President had
by no means been immune from these attacks.

Since the declaration of war the triumphant war press has pursued those Senators and
Representations who voted against war with malicious falsehood and recklessly libelous attacks,
going to the extreme limit of charging them with treason against their country.

This campaign of libel and character assassination directed against the Members of Congress who
opposed our entrance into the war has been continued down to the present hour, and I have upon
my desk newspaper clippings, some of them libels upon me alone, some directed as well against
other Senators who voted in opposition to the declaration of war.