<quote name="Andy Bradford" date="Fri, 5 Dec 2008 at 22:33 -0700"> > Thus said Von Fugal on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:39:14 MST: > > > I feel that inflation is inevitable in many respects. Well > > distributed, limited inflation is acceptable and manageable. > > Are you talking about monetary inflation (the classical definition of > inflation) or the more modern definition of price inflation? And why is > it ever acceptable and manageable?
Monetary inflation. Price inflation is certainly avoidable. I only say it's inevitable because finding that ideal money that will never expand and never fluctuate in usage, could prove hard indeed. If we used gold as money, and more gold is mined, we have inflation. To me that's acceptable and manageable. My point is that people seem to to think that because no matter what we do, we'll have inflation, means that we might as well let the government control that inflation. Wrong answer. More wrong is the conclusion that inflation is NECESSARY. It certainly is not, and if we were able to find a money that never inflated, there would be no detriment from the lack of inflation. > If we all awoke tomorrow morning and found that all our bank accounts > had evenly doubled overnight, how would that benefit anyone? The only > people that would actually benefit are those who woke up earlier and > discovered the increase sooner. They would then spend their money, thus > driving up prices for the late comers (or those who thought to be > prudent and save it). Late comers would find that their infusion of > money wouldn't buy as much as those who spent their money early on in > the process. Eventually overall higher prices would reflect the new > situation of the doubling of the money supply. Those who had acquired > goods and increased their capital wealth early on would end up > wealthier, and those who didn't end up poorer. Yep, those early risers are the government and it's suppliers. > > If taxation is the exact same thing, then, why not just tax? Why > > inflate instead? > > Taxation is such a distasteful thing. Nobody gets elected on higher > taxes. This is why democratic governments are so able to wage war. If we > had to pay taxes for all the wars we get, the costs would be unbearable. Precisely, so given the choice between taxation and inflation, I'll choose taxation anyday. Why allow the government the subversive and deceitful tool of inflation, to be able to tax us more than we otherwise would allow? Inflation (by government) is even more distasteful than taxation, because it is at least as distasteful as any taxation, but the tasters are future generations. Ick! The perpetrators can continue to get themselves elected because the current electorate don't see the inflation for what it is. Von Fugal -- Government is a disease that masquerades as its own cure -- Robert Lefevre
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