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Customs & Bureau of Internal Revenue Merged

The Customs Administrative Act was to fall within the jurisdiction of
the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which was to be responsible for “…all taxes
and excises imposed by this Act.” The Act clearly included import and export
excise taxes. This effectively merged Customs and Internal Revenue in the
Philippines.

Prohibition

When Prohibition was ratified in 1919 with the18th Amendment, the
government created federal bureaucracies to enforce the new law. As social
protest and resistance mounted against Prohibition, new federal laws and the
number of bureaucrats hired to enforce them increased. This seems to be the
only way this de facto government can operate – more laws and more cops.
After much public dissent, imprisoned citizens and loss of life, Congress
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repealed Prohibition with the ratification of the 21 Amendment to the
Constitution in 1933.
For the purpose of our analysis on the demise of the Republic and the
birth of a Democracy, the year 1933 will be as good as any. This country had
elected a dedicated socialist, who by his actions would effectively destroy the
Republic.
As one of his first acts as President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared
a “Banking Emergency” to bail out the Federal Reserve Bank, which had
embezzled this country’s gold supply. The Congress gave the President
dictatorial powers under the “War Powers Act of 1917” (amended 1933),
written, by the way, by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York.
Congress used the economic emergency as the excuse to give blanket
approval to any and all presidential executive orders, making Roosevelt a
constitutional dictator. Roosevelt, a devout socialist, with a little help from his
socialist friends, was prolific in his production of new legislation and executive
orders, as has every president since. It is he who placed the federal and state
governments and all of the people into perpetual bankruptcy, pledging their
labor and property as collateral to the creditors, the International Banking
families.