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throne. Quickly putting down army discontent, he inspected the treasury. It contained the equivalent of a measly $120,000, not even enough to pay his army. In addition, he owed $1.5 million. Alexander had no choice. He had to have money to pay his army and to pay his debts. Greece was bare of money. Persia was rich. She had the money she had taken from Babylon and from her interest charges to Athens and other Greek cities over the years. The pressing need for money forced Alexander to invade Persia. Leading his matchless Grecian phalanx against the Persians, he won magnificent victories and gained an empire—and $440 million in gold from Darius’ banks and tem- ples. TAXES—TO START MONEY MOVING “Interest requires a heavy tax so that money will not be hoard- ed but circulated to pay interest"—Hoskins' 4th Law of Interest.* Taxes! This was one of the most brilliant inventions of the classical age. This is where ‘share the wealth’ taxes started. While there have always been taxes, the specific reason for these heavy taxes was to milk the rich and start money circulating again. Everyone paid them.* The rich in Athens groaned, but they paid. The rulers spent it as fast as they could get it. It worked. Commerce and trade broke out of stagnation, then blos- somed. It required rigidly enforced collections to break loose the tightly held money. No holdouts were allowed since the holdouts plus interest could in time result in owning all the money again through use of The System. This universal taxation, whose benefits were discovered long ago in Greece, is essential to the usury system. Through the years men have spoken against taxation. Everyone who has paid taxes has wanted to do away with them, but what happens when taxation is abolished? The usury-bankers end up with all the money, and none is left in circulation. The only thing that has kept the usury system operating through the ages is taxation. In spite of its beneficial effects, the biggest and most modern build- ings in the blighted debt-ridden downtowns of the world are still banks and insurance companies. Both are active in usury in slightly different ways and have cornered the larger part of the wealth of the world. Rome Conquers Greece The Grecian empire encompassed most of the known world. A model Greek city was built in each conquered country to demonstrate the superiority of the Greek culture. Each city con- tained a temple. Each temple was also an interest bank which made loans. Gradually the gold in the form of interest payments returned from the people to the Greek temples scattered all over the empire and gradually depression also set in. Greek traders established cities in the southem and northern parts of Italy. In the middle was the young vigorous Roman fed- eration. The Greek traders traded extensively with their Roman neighbors—much of it on credit—lending 10 gold coins under condition that 11 be repaid. The Romans were hard put to pay their ballooning obligations to the Greeks and at the same time maintain their armies which were needed for their incessant wars. Choosing to gain by war what she could not gain by peace, Rome turned on Greece, conquered her, and confiscated her wealth concentrated in the Greek temples and the municipal and the private banks. People who talk against taxation haven't thought the matter through. The only time heavy taxation is not needed is when there is no usury system. (* Note: Today, special taxes such as the ‘inheritance tax’ are used to force owners to sell their businesses and land to corpora- tions owned by the international usurers. A businessman may have bought his business for $50,000. He dies and it is valued at a million. The son is often forced to borrow heavily to pay the inheritance tax. When he cannot meet payments, he is fore- closed. This is the only way the usurers could ever hope to cap- ture most family-held property passed down from generation to generation.) No man or nation wishes to be a servant or slave. When it is discovered that the interest loan is a trick and there is no way to repay the debt, both men and nations will turn on their lenders. A loan must be accompanied with bribes to keep the rulers of the stronger nation friendly. Babylon was active in the internal affairs of her neighbors. Persia was always active in the internal affairs of Greece. Rome's Debt Solution—Conquest! The first war with Carthage gave Rome 3,200 talents in tribute and the second war returned 10,000 talents. This money was spent on her debts. In a short time Rome was hard up again and was forced to conquer Greece. The Greek wealth lasted Rome for a while and then, like Greece, Persia and Babylon before, Rome was forced to conquer and conquer and conquer. After Greece came Syria, and then Carthage again. By 14 AD she had conquered what would be modern-day northern and southern Italy, Sicily, Greece, the immense coastline of North Africa, Turkey, Algeria, Spain, Egypt and France. By 98 AD Rome had added Morocco, England, and most of Scotland, and by 98-116 AD Arabia, Mesopotamia and Armenia. It was becoming expen- sive to conquer and the returns were scant. As long as there were nations to conquer and gold to be won, Rome was a vigorous expanding empire. When the Roman legions were at last reduced to wandering over the hot barren sands of Arabia and the equally empty barren steppes of Russia, Rome had reached the end of the line. There is never enough gold to satisfy the demands of usury. In spite of bribes, in time the ‘system’ itself generates a ‘des- peration level’ that bribe money will not fix. oF 30eNEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1993