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A Quote by Ronald Wilson Reagan on inflation and violence

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. Source:  1978 Contributed by:  Zaady read more

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A Quote by Rush H. Limbaugh III on beginning, belief, destruction, inflation,...

Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on Poverty has cost us 70 % more than the total...

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A Quote by unknown on government, inflation, and taxes

Inflation is the one form of taxation which even the weakest government can enforce, when it can enforce nothing else. Source:  League of Nations Report on European Inflations of the 1920s Contributed...

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A Quote by unknown on business, direction, government, inflation, statistics,...

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is one of the more insidious statistics developed by our government because it directs the hostility of the inflation-weary public toward business and the marketplace...

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A Quote by Thomas Woodrow Wilson on business, danger, and inflation

Big business is not dangerous today because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy. Contributed by:  Zaady read...

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A Quote by Ludwig von Mises on economy, politics, banking, finance, and...

The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. Source:  Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Scholars Edition) Pages:  562 Contributed by:  peter read more

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A Quote by Ben S. Bernanke on inflation, fed, control, stealing, and robbery

But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By...

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A Quote by Alan Greenspan on welfare, banking system, inflation, theft,...

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no...

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A Quote by Ludwig von Mises on gdp, national product, national income,...

The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national...

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A Quote by Thomas Jefferson on inflation defined, fiat money, tax, politics,...

It will be asked how will the two masses of Continental and of State money have cost the people of the United States seventy-two millions of dollars, when they are to be redeemed now with about six...

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