“‘How,’ Manuel? You know how we are doing it. We’re stealing it. I’m neither proud of it nor ashamed; it’s the means we have. If they ever catch on, they may eliminate us—and that I am prepared to face. At least, in stealing, we have not created the villainous precedent of taxation.”
Monetary Inflation and taxation are both nothing more than theft, but overt theft via transparent taxation normalizes it, while money printing as a stealth tax goes largely unnoticed, and thus is better if the intention is to stop printing after necessary defensive measures of existential wars.
