By Anna Von Reitz
Rome made its living for centuries by stealing and making improvements upon other people's ideas. It also made a lot of its money by conquering and enslaving other people, but not always directly in the sense of forcing them to be house servants or field workers or soldiers.
The majority of the time, Rome used a more white collar means to enslave: taxes and tributes.
Taxes in the Roman world were usually head taxes or user fees that were direct and which individuals could somewhat control by their own habits. If you didn't buy Greek anchovies, you didn't pay the Greek anchovy tariff (tax).
Tributes were indirect taxes by comparison and were levied by a complex system of arbitrarily extracted "gifts" of labor and commodities sent to Rome each year by individuals and communities who were grateful for Roman protection and Roman investments.
Bear with us. This is important. Taxation in Ancient Rome is more important today than you might think.
Another way to look at it, is that sales taxes and tariffs and user fees paid for the City of Rome itself and poured into the Urban Trust each year, while external tributes sent to Rome represented a portion of one's labor and/or commodity production, like a secular tithe, and went to pay for roads, aqueducts, theaters, public baths and similar infrastructure.
Tributes were a percentage of the value of one's labor, what we would call income taxes today, and both individual people and organizations were obliged to pay their percentage to Caesar each year.
Once Rome became a military dictatorship the Romans even applied this tax to their own "citizens" -- bureaucrats, soldiers, and lower level public employees of the realm -- or, as one of the Roman sages put it, "those deemed blessed enough to be considered Romans, but not blessed enough to avoid paying Roman taxes."
Nothing has changed. Today, in The United States, the same exact system has been used to enslave both citizens and non-citizens alike.
Americans continue to be taxed using tariffs, sales taxes, and direct user fees (for example, gas taxes and taxes on public utilities and services like electricity and garbage removal). The Federal Income Tax, a form of modern day tribute, continues to be officially described as a "gift and estate tax" and is also officially touted as being a "voluntary" obligation.
As in Rome, the only sense in which this tax is voluntary, is that the consequences of not paying it are worse than the consequences of paying it.
The enslavement of babies from birth was perfected by the Roman Catholic Church, which "invested" in each individual from birth, and created individual trust funds for each "citizen" in the Vatican's care -meaning, parishioners, clergy, and dependents.
The Pope paid a "birth bond" for each such individual equal to the baby's weight at birth in gold, thus starting the otherwise odd practice of recording the exact weight of babies at birth.
This birth bond became a debt owed to the Church at birth and remained silently in the background throughout the lifetime of the individual. The wealth this represented, unknown to the individual, was managed by the Vatican as a Slush Fund that paid for pensions for the clergy and maintenance for the churches, etc., and as it was an individual debt, each parishioner was expected to pay the interest on it each year in the form of taxes and tributes and tithes.
The Church's taxation system can be viewed as a simple and ingenious adaptation of the taxation system of Ancient Rome, with some added benefits. A special tithe on income collected each year on April 15th, known as "Peter's Pence", became the Church equivalent of Tribute to Rome, while tithes and service fees and weekly offerings became the domestic income.
It is directly observable how Tribute to Rome morphed into Peter's Pence and again, transformed into "Federal Income Tax". It's the same tax collected under different names by different institutions, but still the same in kind and character, and it still involves peonage -- a degree of forced servitude, bonded or not.
The bonding employed by the Church made each baby a debtor to the Church from the very beginning of life, even though the baby was blissfully unaware of this obligation, and would always remain so. Whatever "benefit" the little tyke received for sharing the Church's debts and funding the Church's operational expenses and pensions and investments --- was in the form of Church programs and use of Church facilities.
He or she would never see a penny of the wealth generated as a result of their indebtedness -- only the taxes used to pay the interest on this debt.
If the victims were Catholic, they grew up and received the Church's benefits; if not, they were simply Debtors, and were taxed for it anyway, via the Secular Taxation system.
If a baby weighed six pounds at birth and gold was selling at $30 per ounce at the time, the Pope's investment would be: 6 X 16 X 30 = $2880. That amount would be set aside as an investment in the baby and his lifetime earning potential. This silent asset of the church managed as a trust created a giant investment fund that was tax free. If the Pope borrowed the gold to make this initial investment, the interest became a debt owed by the parish and the parishioners.
Gold prices being what they are and the Church's reputation being tattered, it has become untenable for the Church to continue this process of birth bonding, but never fear -- "Trump Accounts" are here.
The Trump Administration has announced that it will set up individual Treasury Accounts for each baby born and contribute $1000 to these accounts (the new, reduced birth bond amount) which will allow the British Crown Corporation dba "the United States of America, Inc." to silently indebt each new baby under this same ancient system of silent taxation, debt, and peonage.
Instead of paying this birth bond in gold, however, they will be using paper that they can gin up themselves and which is based on the victim's own credit. And for this "token" disguised as a gift, they will indebt your baby for life and secure a public trust interest in his or her estate-- basically, an unearned security interest.
What a deal! Get all that under the table for free, while making political hay and getting praise from all the ignorant dupes thanking the Trump Administration for its generosity.
Except, that, we have been to this picture show before, and we object to Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent's "offer" as quoted by Breitbart, July 30th, 2025: "We are making people part of the system...."
Mr. Bessent and the Trump Administration are simply not telling people how and why and with what benefit to themselves they are proposing to do this, and this omission lacking full disclosure is fatal; these accounts given to little babies and disguised as gifts, are actually a means of latching onto them and subjecting them to public peonage, redefining them as debtors, and as public investment interests that can be fully securitized and collateralized for the sake of this petty debt.
Made "part of the system", indeed, and using their own credit and inherited assets to do it, too.
If it were just a little savings account with no strings attached given to the babies as an encouragement --- as Mr. Bessent seems to suggest, to learn about money and savings and investing our pennies, that would be well and good.
Instead, the USA, Inc. is on the ropes and looking for a new way to carry on ancient evils, which we recognize for what they are.
For this reason we are objecting to the entire proposal as an incipient commercial fraud seeking unjust enrichment --- and returning with a counteroffer: turn over our assets to our own control and transfer them to our new, clean banking system for administration as described in our current Notices to Mr. Bessent, together with the vast amounts of prepaid credit that we are owed.
Then we will reconsider your service contract and whether or not we will renew it and allow you to provide the limited and enumerated services described.
The pertinent international commercial courts and commercial law enforcement officials have been fully informed. Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals; Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents.
Postscript: We find it particularly offensive that you have persisted in attempting to take advantage of babies and their gullible young parents.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
July 31st 2025
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