It was beautiful until the PRIVATELY OWNED "Federal Reserve" Banking system took over our US Treasury's Constitutional right to create money for gov't use.
The "Fed" created money out of thin air and LOANED it to our gov't turning America into their debt slaves.
then created the Income Tax to pay back our "debt" to the BANKSTERS.
Picrel- even Milton Friedman said :"The Federal Reserve, the privately owned US Central Bankโฆ"