Should Governments Be Allowed to Steal Your Property?
A dumbass question with a simple answer: NO
And if they try start shooting.
The Democratic Party must be destroyed.
What do you mean, shouldn’t the government “be allowed to steal your property”?
Under the prevailing Keynesian theory of economics, when government through the Federal Reserve, decides as a
matter of official policy to have a “targeted rate of inflation”, it is in effect stealing your property. That
is, it is stealing by dilution just exactly as when a bartender steals from you by watering down the drink you
ordered. Worse, Keynesian economics assumes as a matter of routine policy that government has the right to define or alter the value of your money, and your wages, and in fact all your present and future wealth.
A Google search for “Federal Reserve targeted rate of inflation” will link to official speeches and testimony on that policy” See for example, this Federal Reserve press release [2].
This is exactly why none other than Alan Greenspan closed his 1986 article, Gold and Economic Freedom [1] with the following:
“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.
“This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.”
[1] http://constitution.org/mon/greenspan_gold.htm
[2] http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20120125c.htm
The SCOTUS said yes. sadly.
The SCOTUS also said the fedgov has power to mandate what you spend your own money on (healthcare, gym membership, Volts... etc)
same thing as a forfeiture
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Not a good question to ask someone as they are paying their PROPERTY TAX..
UNLESS he/she is a democrat..
The next question up the plateau of questions is..
WHAT is the federal reserve.?.. What exactly do they do.?.
Followed by WHO ARE THEY.?. <<- then the problems start..
Only when they are willing to accept the risk associated with their business practices....
Given the title topic, it would have made sense not to include the account of the woman who (wrongly or otherwise) got in trouble for allegedly neglecting the children she allegedly was personally watching. However horrible the story, this kind of mixing in hot button issues to increase the temperature of passion is what liberals do. Not thinking conservatives, who stay on the stated topic.
Heck, I thought being able to steal your property was part of the definition of “government.”
I guess I’m getting old and cynical...
Alongside all this commenting keep in mind that any kind of government means/involves people. And remember that it is not unusual for people to sell their souls for comfort. A society of people gets what it has/does in the character of it’s people.