I must reverently Disagree with you that Inflation is a Secret Tax.
I will agree that inflation is a way for the Governments to keep people from gaining Wealth and Power over Government actions.

Inflation was INSTALLED into the economic system before the time of Christ.
This is why Jesus identified the money changers as “A Den of Thieves”.
It is possible for the Global economic system to be repaired Without inflation within 30 days.
However TWO things need to happen. First the Currencies value Must be stabilized. One value for all currencies world wide. This would mean putting an end to the FOREX market trading system. The second thing would be to establish a Global Labor Table.
As an example. Why should an electrician in America earn 25 dollars an hour while in Bangladesh that same person is paid 3 dollars a day? Is not the job, education and labor the same?
Inflation is NOT something that happens because of peoples wants, needs and desires. It is purposely Installed into the system for Power and control. To Prevent Democracy.

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On a different note; It is IMMORAL to be competitive. The Bible requires “Seek no Rivals”, “Love thy Enemy” and to “Put away thy Vanity”.
Competition is mans Vanity. Read in YOUR Bible how Jesus Christ Tried to teach people to Cooperate with each other and NOT to Destroy one another.

Many families feel they have to have both parents working and/or limit their family size to cover costs and save for college education. This is the social costs of big government taxes and inflation.

We do have the New Media, internet and talk shows that are holding back the socialist deluge but they/we failed in the last election.

We have double digit unemployment and the news from Casa Blanca is that the recession is over. We’re printing more money to keep the smoke screen thick.
Greedy capitalists already robbed the savings of the working class. Of course this was all designed and orchestrated by our gov’t agencies that are answerable to no one.
This winter they’re going to keep us distracted with swine flu.

Communist China is doing very well thanks to anti-communist US.
The global money changers will dump the dollar for the yen or the rupee as soon
as they smell percentage.

We’re cooked and we know it. The solution according to the experts is more support for the prince of darkness.

Am I despondent? I would be if it wasn’t for the One who said “blessed are the poor…

Here is the reasoning:(income tax)
Currently the top 20% of earners make 53% of the income and pay 91% of the tax.
Currently the bottom 50% of earners pays 3% of taxes
Currently 40% of the population pay no taxes, and 1/3 get a govt. check.

Obama tax law changes will lead to further mal-distribution of income taxes. Under the newly passed legislation, over 50% of voters will pay no taxes and most who make <$110,000 will get a government check of some time.

Once the majority of citizens don’t pay taxes at all, taxation disappears as a viable political (campaign) issue. Alexis de Tocqueville was right.

Now, I am also of the opinion that we just have WAY too few representatives. I say that any rep should have a constituency of 60-70,000 souls (not voters, but citizens). This would make for a current HoR of over 5,000 members; and at once dilute House floor power and increase closeness to constituencies. (Just the greater likelihood of truly local stump speeches [town-hall meetings?] tickles my intellectual imagination.) Lobbyists could not ‘buy’ enough rep votes and only the best ideas would likely even get full hearings. Plus, with hearings, etc., going on months in most cases, we citizens would get a better look at legislation before it could ‘assault’ us.

Plus, return Senatorial selection and ‘reelection’ to state powers. Our ‘House of Lords’ would get that much less lordly, having to go hat-in-hand before a more local process; and our state officials would give us strong glimpses into their own fit for their jobs.

I also predict that with the near impossibility of such as the MSM to manage to taint elections from the standpoints of their own elitist notions, bashing some candidates and not ‘covering’ other candidates, more end-of-career folks would think they could give a term or two near the end of their productive lives and then go into retirement, giving us effective and practically natural term limits in most jurisdictions. Such greater access would also mean that new political party organizations would have opportunities to be nurtured over time.

I also believe in a ‘committee of the citizens’ to review laws for not only rightful common-citizen comprehensibility but expectably just fullness of legislation: that actions of bureaucrats are tied to the legislation rather than the legislation being bound by bureaucratic decisions. Heh-heh – really like this last part; no more lawyers writing for lawyers, in gross conflict of interest, but more persons from various professions developing laws for citizens.

(I know, I know: “Lord, the man just never puts anything briefly!”) However, by way of parting, clearly, my tongue-in-cheek ‘Mary Kochan for President’ would have given us an executive leader with more talent while taking a nap than just about anything ‘leading’ in Wash. D.C. and most state capitals, now. For, we can’t just ‘throw the thieving bums out’. We have to replace them with talent to do the jobs needing doing.

The United States Treasury Department.

Convenient for them that they decide how big the money supply is, eh?

A municipal judge confided to me some years ago that city hall set speed limits on a long, downhill, four-lane grade, with a median divider, precisely for the purpose of raising more revenue. The 35 mph speed limit, when the natural flow of traffic was 50, had proven to be a big money maker — aka TAX.

So how does the principle of taxation via representation work when the tax is imposed fraudulently upon the people by our representatives? In reality it cannot work, as Mary rightly points out, until “every single robber is put out.”

I had an interesting coversation with my 17-yr-old grandson a few years ago. We were talking about athletic shoes; he had his eye on a pair that cost $100. While I know that’s not beyond reason, these days, it nevertheless caused me to reflect on my youth. First, I had to explain what Keds were–in those days, there wasn’t much else. Then, I told him about buying my own shoes in high school for $2 or $3 per pair. I was scandalized when I’d recently bought a pair and had to pay $12 for them. For about 2 seconds, he thought it was a funny story. Long pause. Finally, he said, “Wow, at that rate of inflation, it’s going to cost me $1,000 for one pair of shoes for one of my children!” Before I could say anything in response, he blurted, “Boy, I better study harder so I can get a really good job!” Enough said.