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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
Milton Friedman
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Milton Friedman
American
Economist
Born:
Jul 31
,
1912
Died:
Nov 16
,
2006
Topics
Inflation
,
Without
,
Imposed
,
Legislation
,
Form
,
Taxation
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan
Politics
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Inflation
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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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Inflation
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Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.
Eduardo Galeano
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More
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Always
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
Milton Friedman
Inflation
Without
Imposed
Legislation
Form
Taxation
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
You
Age
Inflation
Hair
Pay
Had
Haircut
Dollars
Five
Get
Fifteen
Used
Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.
Suze Orman
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Money
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Inflation
Will
Power
Savings
Consider
Savings Accounts
Market
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Purchasing
Purchasing Power
Emergency
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Retirement
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Gnaw
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Accounts
Stocks
Short-Term
Fulfill
Your
Fund
Funding
Buying
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
Thomas Sowell
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