Will Government ever stop its intrusion into our lives?
How can the growth of Government be stopped?
Here some excerpts from the video.
“A government powerful enough to give you everything you want, will also necessarily be powerful enough to take away everything you have. Including your freedom. Government power must be limited because the alternative is unlimited Government.”
(Modern day) “Liberals believe that if there is a societal problem they believe the best solution is a new Government program. If it fails to achieve its goal, which it invariably does, the solution is a bigger Government program – More – and when does more become enough? The honest answer is NEVER“.
SHACKLE THE GOVERNMENT TO SOUND MONEY
The Constitution was supposed to control the size of government. Since “the Constitution is no threat to our current form of government,” as Joseph Sobran has said, the only way to shrink Government is to get back to sound money. As long as Government can fund itself via The Fed’s electronically printed counterfeit money, there isn’t much that can be done. Cutting the size and scope of government is the real solution to the problem, but we all know that shrinking government is almost impossible because of our political process. No matter who gets in control of congress and/or the presidency, government keeps growing. In this article by Paul-Martin Foss titled, Sound Money And Fiscal Policy (read here at mises.org), he talks about the relationship between the growth of government and a central banks ability to print money. Here are some excerpts from the article.
“Sound money….. is the most important check on government spending. If money is sound, meaning that the government cannot inflate the money supply at will, then government spending will be limited. Remember that governments can fund their operations through three methods: 1.) Taxation; 2.) Bonds, or borrowing; 3.) Inflation.”
“Taxation is self-limiting because at higher tax rates there will be massive tax avoidance and tax revenues will fall, or the government might be voted out or overthrown if people are angry enough. Bonds have to be repaid, which comes from future taxation, so we are back to the self-limiting aspect of tax funding. Bonds also require interest payments, and if a government isn’t creditworthy then the interest payments may make borrowing money prohibitively expensive.”
“This leads us to the third and preferred method, inflation. By creating more money, the government decreases the value of each monetary unit. But it normally does so in a slow enough manner as to be barely perceptible to the average person. And where does this newly-created money go? Why, to the government’s coffers, of course. There it gets spent on wars, welfare, and other boondoggles. In the meantime, the newly-created money causes the prices of goods to increase, driving up the cost of living for the average person. In this way, inflation is a stealth tax. Its effects are just as insidious as direct taxation in that it takes money from citizens and deposits it into government coffers, but it does so in such an imperceptible way that very few people realize that they are being fleeced. That allows governments to spend far more money than they otherwise would be able to by relying on taxes and borrowing alone, which is why governments prefer it.”
Sound money and the Fed are subjects not many people had heard about, let alone understood, until Ron Paul shed light on them during his run for president. More people have to understand the concept of sound money, on the one hand, and how the Federal Reserve produces counterfeit fiat money on the other, if there is any chance of reigning in Leviathan.
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