[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens,
but *by the government*: by an artificial expansion of the
money supply required to support deficit spending.
No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever
plundered people’s savings on a scale comparable to the
plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist
governments.

AYN RAND

[FredZarguna]

Isn't it interesting that Rand had this idea when there were people who still thought that inflation was a matter of over-supply, declining productivity, wage-price pressure, fiscal policy, and gawd knows what else, and that Friedman's correct explanation for inflation being entirely a matter of monetary policy ultimately goes back to her?

Now that we've settled that issue, it's time for people to understand how poisonous and manipulative altruism is. How it's essentially a con game that only priests and politicians can win, and the rest of us lose -- and lose big.