Inflation Is A Form Of

The Mounting Burden Of Taxation Not Only Undermines Individual Incentives To Increased Work And Earnings, But In A Score Of Ways Discourages Capital Accumulation And Distorts, Unbalances, And Shrinks Production.

Once The Premise Is Accepted That Poverty Is Never The Fault Of The Poor But The Fault Of 'society,' Or Of 'the Capitalist System, Then There Is No Definable Limit To Be Set On Relief, And The Politicians Who Want To Be Elected Or Reelected Will Compete With Each Other In Proposing New 'welfare' Programs To Fill Some Hitherto 'unmet Need.'

A Man Who Is Good From Docility, And Not From Stern Self-control, Has No Character.

The Most Obvious And Yet The Oldest And Most Stubborn Error On Which The Appeal Of Inflation Rests Is That Of Confusing ‘money’ With ‘wealth’…real Wealth, Of Course, Consists In What Is Produced And Consumed: The Food We Eat, The Clothes We Wear, The Houses We Live In. It Is Railways And Roads And Motor Cars; Ships And Planes And Factories; Schools And Churches And Theaters; Pianos, Paintings And Books. Yet So Powerful Is The Verbal Ambiguity That Confuses Money With Wealth, That Even Those Who At Times Recognize The Confusion Will Slide Back Into It In The Course Of Their Reasoning.

A Certain Amount Of Taxes Is Of Course Indispensable To Carry On Essential Government Functions. Reasonable Taxes For This Purpose Need Not Hurt Production Much.