Why inflation is taxation

You have to pay, one way or another

When you understand that inflation is by design you’ll realize that the whole system is a shell game.

And the only way to survive the game is to adequately prepare for the day when it ends.

Two ways for you to be taxed

When you earn $60,000 a year but spend $80,000 you are running a household deficit.
This means you have to borrow the $20,000 difference and go into debt.

But what if you run too many deficits and can’t pay off your debt?
Then you will have to default on your loan obligations.

However, the rules change if you’re the government. 😉

Governments have another option if they have too much debt. Inflation.
I’ve been warning about inflation for years on this blog.

“Policy makers from around the world are covertly initiating inflation to see which country can print the most money to improve their economy’s competitiveness. But by doing so, the devastating knock-on affects will financially destroy millions of lives in the years to come.”  ~ Blog post from 2016.

Here’s the U.S. federal government’s income and spending over the last few years.
Notice how each year the government is running a deficit.

• 2019
  Revenue = $3.5 trillion
  Spending = $4.4 trillion
• 2020
  Revenue = $3.4 trillion
  Spending = $6.6 trillion
• 2021
  Revenue = $3.8 trillion
  Spending = $6.8 trillion
• 2022 (projected)
  Revenue = $4.2 trillion
  Spending = $6.0 trillion

How can the government bridge the gap between income and expenses? Taxation.

But raising taxes would be politically unpopular.

So it has to borrow money instead.

The government issues bonds, which is debt.
A central bank then buys these bonds with newly printed money.
Has the economy grown? Not really.
All you have is more money chasing after the same amount of goods and services.

This is why we get inflation.

But if the government had just raised taxes to grow its revenue in the first place then prices wouldn’t rise.

This is why inflation is taxation.

Deficit spending must be paid, either by direct taxation, or indirectly via inflation.

Can’t avoid the unavoidable

The U.S. government is expected to spend 36% more this year than in 2019. Why?

I don’t know. But there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
Citizens have to pay for the extra government spending, somehow.

This is why your money is not safe stored in fiat currency. U.S. inflation is currently running at 7.9%.
This is the consequence of higher government spending.

Could all this have been prevented?

Is it possible to not subject the population to higher income tax or inflation? Yes.
But that would require the government to spend less money. Good luck with that. 😅

Documents obtained by The New York Times show that Joe Biden is calling for total spending to rise to $8.2 trillion by 2031, with deficits running throughout the next decade. Good grief. 🤦‍♂️

Canada’s inflation number is coming out this week. My guess is it will run hotter than 5%.
Let’s see how it goes. In any case I’m sticking with my plan to protect my finances against inflation.

Welcome to the money game. Those are the rules. Now go play accordingly. 😬

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