>Isn't escape from this kind of tyranny the reason the first colonists left England? The power of the banks is harder for people to understand, so banks have b

>Isn't escape from this kind of tyranny the reason the first colonists left England? The power of the banks is harder for people to understand, so banks have been very powerful, yet even less accountable than monarchs. "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -Thomas Jefferson