In 1913, seven private bankers met in secret and handed themselves control of American money. 97% of the dollar's value has been destroyed since. The wars, the debt, the rent you can't afford — this is how it works.
Every major U.S. war since 1913 was funded by printing money — silently taxing your wages and savings. The pretexts were manufactured. The money was real.
Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) has introduced HR 8421 — the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act. It abolishes the Federal Reserve System entirely and requires disposal of its assets within one year. It is real legislation. It is in Congress right now. Your representative has not cosponsored it.
Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress — and only Congress — the power to coin money. No constitutional amendment was ever passed delegating this to a private institution. The Fed's legal basis has never been fully tested in court.
This has been done before. President Andrew Jackson abolished the Second Bank of the United States in 1833. He called it "the monster." Bank president Nicholas Biddle poured $3 million of bank funds into defeating him. Jackson made abolition the central issue of the 1832 election. He won 219 electoral votes to 49. His greatest achievement, he said: "I killed the bank." It can be done because it has been done.
Note: Jackson's Trail of Tears was a genuine historical atrocity — not in dispute here. The point is narrower: Hamilton, who created the first central bank, got a Broadway musical. Jackson, who killed the second one, got removed from the $20. You are allowed to hold both things at once.