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Infltion - The Cruellest Tax by John de Roe.
Inflation is the cruellest tax, it hits the cautious, prudent and hard working, rewards the feckless, reckless and downright foolish. We have a bout of inflation under way, engineered by governments to reduce their unsdustainable levels of debt incurred in the business of buying otes to stay in power. What will be its effect on ordinary people?

Inflation - The Cruellest Tax
by John de Roe.
2011-01-27
CREATIVE COMMONS: Attribute, non commercial, no derivs.
KEYWORDS: economy, economic, business, debt, inflation, pension, savings, inflation, devaluation, money, labour, conservative, deficit, left, socialist, government

Inflation is the nastiest of all stealth taxes, a tax that that hardest on people who have done what government and financial institutions advised, lived thriftily, planned for their retirement, paid a substantial percentage of their hard earned into a pension account, controlled their debts, paid their bills and amassed a nest egg as insurance against hard times and to provide a few luxuries. Infltion is, in effect a financial mechanism to transfer wealth from savers to the state. From a political leader's point of view it is preferable to punitive tax increases in that voters are less likely to blame the politicians who screwed up the economy than to ascribe their misfortune and the dwindling value of their assets to the wider economic crisis . Economically, however, inflation is worse than taxation. It penalises thrift, rewards prodigality, disadvantages financially stable businesses and weakens competitiveness. For thirty years following the end of World War 2 in 1945 British governments of both Labour and Conservative parties used inflation to erode the debts Churchill had unavoidably incurred during the War. As a result Britain fell further and further behind its rivals both in terms of output and living standards. In the mid-1970s, with a third debt crazy and financially incompetent Labour government in power since the ending of hostilities we were close to meltdown: power shortages had put the country on a three day week, prices and incomes policies had squeezed workers while inflation ran in double figures, and the unions were out of control. There were constant strikes and it was difficult for bosses in a unionised environment to get any worker to do anything they did not feel like doing. I was never a fan of Margaret Thatcher but at least the Conservative team she led appeared to understand the problem. Strict control of the money supply would bring down inflation and so make possible a national recovery. The economic that carried the Conservatives to power was opposed by 364 leading economists in an open letter to the media. These were the self styled Keynsians although their addiction to big government, an ever expanding public sector, constantly increasing taxes and borrowing by selling bonds to fund deficits. The economists would have had the new government continue with the policies that had twice seen Labour governments appeal to the International Monetary Fund for help and had twice seen the IMF impose draconian austerity measures to bring the haemorrhaging of money under control. Measures far more harsh than the austerity measures the coalition government is now imposing to the fury of left wing politicians and academics who, true to the track record of the left, are insisting their is the ONLY way and we should defy logic and continue to spend, funding our deficit when we can no longer sell our bonds on the international market by printing money. That way lie Weimar and Zimbabwe. How inflation works to help facilitate the thinking of this insane cabal of left wing authoritarians (yes, that is a coontradiction but it is also the political position of many politicians who refer to themselves as liberal,) is that in a modern economy the amount of money in circulation should reflect the total value of a nations assests.The traditional was of regulating that was by making a currency unit worth an amount of gold or lesser precious metal. Thus in Britain when we were the world's leading economy, a pound (weight) of bronze coin was worth a gold sovereign. All prices derived from that, a 2 pound loaf of bread was fourpence (the price was regulated) to stop profiteering during grain shortages. Start printing money and for each £billion put into the economy the money already in circulation becomes worth a little less. Traders want to live decently and nations we import from want to be sure their farmers and workers and businesses are getting a fair deal and so prices go up. And money buys a little less. Normally in times of inflation interest rates are raised to curb the inflationary pressures in the economy. In the current bout of inflation fever however rates have been kept insanely low. This, we are told, is to stimulate economic recovery but it is not working. While governments are running such huge deficits the banks can make easy money by borrowing from central banks at 0.5% and lending the same money back to the government by using it to buy bonds paying 3.5%. While that goes on there is no end in sight to the economic depression or to the deficits being run by some of the world's biggest economies. So long as there are no other options available inflation will continue and peoples' savings and nest eggs will continue to evaporate. In the 1960s The Who released a record called, "Won't get fooled again." Somehow we always do. The coalition government have done the right thing in standing up to the whining of the left and risking temporary unpopularity by attacking Britain's deficit early in their term of office so the benefits will be apparent by the time they must face the electorate. The economy has moved back into growth and now sems to be slipping back towards recession. Inflation is already taking off. Fraser Nelson reproduces an eye-popping table of consumer prices, showing double-digit rises on last year. Yet the Monetary Policy gurus continue to hold interest rates artificially low whining that to raise rates will make us uncompetitive. Do we have to go through the whole nightmare of the 1950s and 60s again. Stagflation, Labour finance ministers talking about 'squeezing the rich until the pips squeak and and the rich simply taking their money and leaving the country for more money friendly environments. The singer Tom Jones talking on television about his life recently said he had always though of Britain, the Welsh Valleys in particular as his home but he felt compelled to live abroad when in 1970 with supertax rates at 97% he learned he had earned £1 million the previous year and ended up with only £40,000 in his pocket. According to the received wisdom of economics inflation is supposed to be kept below two per cent. In spite of all the accounting trickery to disguise the true figure it is officially running at tice that and gathering pace. 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Nearly one in four Spaniards are now out of work, according to figures released by the government on today, as Standard & Poor's cut the country's credit rating by two notches over its debt burden and ailing banks. The number of unemployed people hit 5,639,500 for March, with the unemployment rate reaching 24.4%, the national statistics agency reported.The figures came on the same day as rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Spanish sovereign debt ...

The Folly Of Trying To Inflate Away Debt
As the debt crisis grinds on and the creit crunch mutates into the credit famine the clueless politicians and even more clueless economists and academics who advise them can only think of one course of action. That is to inflate away their debt problem by devaluing currency to the extent at whic a bag of potatoes or wheat grain costs $£€ 1 trillion. Inflation is the cruellest tax, destroying the savings and pensions of sensible people and rewarding irresponsibility.

Asinine Eurocrats Want To Waste More Of Our Money
On reading the news about the Bureaucrats of Brussels, those smug, smooth faced spawn of a pox whore's scab lice who control our distiny and their demand for a budget increase of twice the official inflation rate after ...

Meanwhile As Punters Suffer Brussels Bureaucrats Throw Away Money As If It Is Infected
European Commission bureaucrats have squandered millions of pounds on bizarre projects that provide little or no benefit to member states, it has been revealed. Wasteful schemes include spending £20m on building three ports in Spain and Italy that remain unused four years after their completion and sending a ‘blogging donkey’ equipped with a solar panel and a video camera around Europe as part of ...

The Demon Stagflation Is On The Loose
The Credit Crunch is stil crunching European economies and the savings and pension funds of individuals.Demand for housing loans has falled 70pc in Portugal, 44pc in Italy, and 42pc in the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2012. Enterprise loans fell 38pc in Italy. This puts a rather different perspective on the UL Labour Party's outraged squealing about our economy contracting one fifth of one per cent over the last ...

Mathematics and Reality
In all of our blogs and web sites the Greenteeth team have been critical of those science fans who are turning science into a religion. Scientists deny this of course even in the face of the evidence. Here Ian R Thorpe shows you that the idea of mathematics as God is nothing new, it has been around longer than Christianity in fact.

Cameron Gazes Into The Abyss
At Prime Minister's questioin time today David Cameron was given a threashing the like of which he had not experienced since he was at his very posh school, and he did not enjoy it. After less than 10 minutes of suffering "the slings and arrows of outraged MPs from members of his own and opposition parties, the Prime Minister looked like a pit bull with piles. The Leverson inquiry ...

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The Question That Wob't Go Away: Who Is Barack Obama?
So now Chris Matthews isn’t the only one experiencing a little thrill when he thinks about Barack (omit middle name) Obama. The recent revelation that from the early 1990s until the day before yesterday—or, to be more accurate, until Obama made his decision to run for president—a biographical pamphlet circulated by his literary agents described him as having been “born in Kenya” has been setting the world of ...

How The Grexit May Make Things Worse In Greece
It looks more likely that Greece will crash out of the euro. But if it attempts to return to the drachma, there's a pretty big problem, which no one's really come up with a way to fix. The printers at De La Rue or its rivals are, according to reports, preparing to run off some new Greek banknotes ...

Is America Really A Post White Nation or Is This Writer Spouting Typical Progressive Claptrap When is a majority less than a majority? Answer: when the minority is bigger. This is what has just happened in the US: births to the white majority in America fell in the first six months of last year to just 49.6 per cent of the total, meaning that Caucasians, as they are quaintly known, may within the next 30 years become an endangered species.Given America’s boast that it is a land of ...

The New Reactionaries by Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media
About fifteen years ago, many liberals began to self-identify as progressives—partly because of the implosion of the Great Society and the Reagan reaction that had tarnished the liberal brand and left it as something akin to “permissive” or “naïve,” partly because “progressive” was supposedly ...

Wind farms can cause climate change, finds new study
Wind farms can cause climate change, according to new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures.

I Promise You The President Has A Big Stick says vice president
Vice President Joe Biden went after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in a campaign address at New York University, questioning the former Massachusetts governor’s chops on foreign policy. And, he was there to try to prop up his boss’ credentials ....

Minimum Alcohol Pricing Shambles by Dick Puddlecote
You have to wonder if UK politicians who have been promoting minimum alcohol pricing might have been a bit pissed when they made the decision to go for it. Consider this response to a parliamentary question tabled by a UKIP member of the House of Lords ...

Asinine bureaucrats
I shared Gildas’ rage yesterday; he fared better than I, he was actually able to articulate his rage. PMQs left me quite speechless and I abandoned the effort to write.PMQs has become a monotonously unfolding pantomime of ...

A Spectacular Devaluation But no Recovery In Sight
The sterling effective exchange rate is one reason why the UK has recorded the highest inflation rate of any advanced economy. With the onset of the crisis, the Bank of England allowed sterling to depreciate dramatically ...

Salt Tax Again
Salt is now the same as tobacco. Soon there will never be a heart attack again, anywhere in the world, and the drones will live in morose greyness for all eternity. Well, I like tobacco, but I won’t die if I can’t get any. It’s a fun part of life ...

Obama Message Booed ~ In Massachusetts (by Allahpundit)
Well, it stands to reason. Massachusetts is a deep red state. Wait, what?
I held off blogging this yesterday in hopes that video would emerge but after almost 24 hours I’ve given up hope. It started when Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom tweeted: ...

The second front - the new fear and panic tactic to replace AGW
Apr 22, 2012 Greens If the struggle to put climatology back on a scientific footing were not bad enough, the UN has just set up a new intergovernmental body, which will push biodiversity as the new excuse to "scare 'n' tax".

Inequality: a middle-class obsession by Daniel Ben-Ami
Unlike past warriors for equality, today’s campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.

Executive Order 13547: “The Sleeping Power Grab” (by Erika Johnsen)
To be fair, President Obama’s executive-order output hasn’t unreasonably outpaced that of his predecessors – his especial willingness to actively circumvent Congress and snatch huge gobs of power for the federal bureaucracy only makes it feel like he has. In July of 2010, President Obama signed executive order 13547 – “Stewardship of ...

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