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To: Turbopilot
It is not purely inflationary of itself; it is inflationary in the behaviour it will introduce into (or encourage)in the mktplace.

It is purely inflationary of itself regarding any contracts that tie wages or purchases to any price index. Wage agreements, I should think, would be more directly affected, but we would have to see how exactly this would play out. (C'mon mate, that should go w/o saying.)

Of course, if enough people get sick of a 'fair' tax regime, it might become somewhat deflationary, as people go outside the regime and are forced to discount prices as a condition of doing business and not getting caught.

54 posted on 01/14/2008 8:53:11 AM PST by SAJ
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To: SAJ

Go look up the definition of inflation. It is a purely monetary phenomenon, as Friedman and von Mises pointed out.


57 posted on 01/14/2008 8:56:22 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: SAJ
It is not purely inflationary of itself; it is inflationary in the behaviour it will introduce into (or encourage)in the mktplace.

It is purely inflationary of itself regarding any contracts that tie wages or purchases to any price index.

Sorry, that's still incorrect. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. In other words, it's caused by the government printing too much money. That is the only cause of inflation; c.f. Friedman. The liberal theories that said otherwise were thoroughly discredited during the "stagflation" of the 1970's. Since inflation is caused only by monetary policy, it follows that other actions (such as a change in the tax code, or any given wage agreements or contracts), cannot and do not cause inflation. Thus inflation, or lack thereof, is a complete irrelevancy in discussions of the FairTax or any other tax proposal.

69 posted on 01/14/2008 9:35:08 AM PST by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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