It happens to print the money... I dont think it needs to steal anything.
If you had even the most fundamental grasp of the concept of inflation, you would know that it
is stealing, in every sense of the word.
Ben Bernanke is an unelected official who with almost zero consequential oversight can produce as much money as he wants, for any reason he wants.
Printing money does not increase the wealth of a society, it redistributes it. Every dollar printed devalues your bank account. In the past 10 years we've
lost 30% of the value of the dollar, and you claim this is not stealing? Very naive.
I would request evidence of the US stealing from it's citizens.
- Inflation, which we've covered
- Taxation, which we've also covered
- Eminent domain (where the government can seize any property for just about any reason from private citizens, and pay them less than market value)
- The theft of our freedom to a trial (Thanks Obama and Bush)
I can go on, but I did not limit my argument to the American government, surely you wouldn't need any examples of foreign governments stealing from the people.
"Money is property"
No its not...
How about a vapid trap question: "what is money?"
Money is directly your property, because it is the product of the sweat of your brow (Or maybe in your case the sweat of your parents' brows).
Your labor and every bit of your property are attached to a monetary value, and this monetary value is manipulated and contorted to benefit the politicians and the well connected rich.
Just repeating "because they're the government" sheds no light on WHY you believe these people are able to steal while you and I are forbidden from doing so.
You've got to dig a little deeper. WHY are certain people (the government) allowed to legally steal, while stealing is illegal for you and me? What gives certain people the ethical authority to govern and collect taxes, while others lack this power?
Centinel, I don't think his 5th grade civics teacher has told yet him why he believes what he believes.