“Inflation is robbery”
Inflation has been called a form of robbery because it makes money worth less. ” It can be truly said, to-day, ‘Inflation is robbery’” was printed in the Cincinnati (OH) Daily Times on September 30, 1875.
“Inflation Branded ‘Legalized Robbery’” was a headline in the Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner on November 22, 1934. “Inflation is legalized robbery that steals from those who are thrifty and who care for themselves” was printed in the Dallas (TX) Morning News on February 12, 1957.
“The most common form of robbery is inflation” was posted on Twitter by Roger Ver on July 26, 2020.
“Inflation is theft. Taxation is robbery” and “Taxation is robbery. Inflation is theft” are related sayings.
30 September 1875, Cincinnati (OH) Daily Times, pg. 2, col. 4:
WHO would be hurt by an inflation of the currency? Well, the Savings Bank depositors, for one class. (...) It can be truly said, to-day, “Inflation is robbery.”
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22 November 1934, Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, pg.4, col. 2:
Inflation Branded
“Legalized Robbery”
12 February 1957, Dallas (TX) Morning News, “Nash Elected by Bankers’ Association,” pt. 3, pg. 14, col. 7:
“Inflation is legalized robbery that steals from those who are thrifty and who care for themselves.”
(Dr. Arthur A. Smith, vice president and economist of the First National Bank in Dallas.—ed.)
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Secular Inflation
By Friedrich-Karl Laege
Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Netherlands
1961
Pg. 22:
Hahn confines himself to the words ’ inflation is robbery ’ , and continues ’ inflation is of course the line of least resistance ’ .
26 January 1962, St. Louis (MO) Globe-Democrat, pg. 8A, col. 3:
THE MAIL BAG
Inflation Is ‘Legalized Robbery’ of Savings
Orlando (FL) Sentinel
INFLATION IS ROBBERY, AND YOUR GOVERNMENT IS DOING THE STEALING
Charley Reese of The Sentinel Staff
March 8, 1992
This is one of an occasional series of columns about how the government injures you. If this were not a family newspaper, I could express that much more graphically.
This particular form of injury is robbery. Maybe you think that the government doesn’t rob you. Well, read on. The modus operandi, as the cops would say, is robbery by inflation.
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Third Continental Congress
Billy Beck
1/27/97
(...)
The fact is that inflation is robbery. It depletes the goods of some (depending on their position in markets) or all (depending on the severity) without their knowledge, and only the government can do it without going out of business. It is a more sublime form of theft than taxation, and always the resort of governments who cannot risk the political affront of taxtion on the population.
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Inflation Is Legalized Robbery, Part 1
by Gregory Bresiger
December 1, 2006
(...)
Given a proper understanding of what inflation is — it is the debasement of a fiat currency through the overprinting of money without any stated limits — there is only one party responsible: the government’s banking authority.
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Soud Hyder
@majiwater
“Inflation is robbery….” Ron Paul
5:50 PM · Nov 9, 2010·Hootsuite
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ian
@devonseaglass
Is inflation a polite word for robbery?
4:16 PM · Feb 27, 2011·Twitter Web Client
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HelicopterEd
@helicoptered
THE TRUE ROBBERY OF EVERY CITIZEN IS INFLATION. MONEY IS OUR LABOR, WHICH HAS BEEN TAXED, THEN ANOTHER HIDDEN TAX THAT HITS EVERY ONE OF US.
10:24 PM · Mar 13, 2012·Twitter Web Client
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Mike Brandt
@brandt_mike
Inflation Is Legalized Robbery - March 2007 article - http://lewrockwell.com/1970/01/gregory-bresiger/inflation-is-legalized-robbery/
8:57 AM · Sep 6, 2013·Twitter for Websites
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Hassan Zaheer
@HassanCSCR
“Inflation is hidden taxation at best and legalized robbery at worst.”
- Umar Vadillo #DinarMovement
12:45 PM · Oct 11, 2013·Twitter Web Client
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Justin Wallis ✌
@JustinWallisWRC
#Inflation is ROBBERY! The Federal Reserve is a RunForProfit PRIVATE Bank #Ponzie #Corrupt #EndTheFed
@EndTheFedUSA
8:41 AM · Jan 6, 2014 from Maryland, USA·Twitter for iPhone
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Karisha
@karishanindya
Inflation is unseen robbery
1:30 AM · Mar 11, 2015·Twitter Web Client
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Auld Bryan
@BCollier2012
#inflation is robbery by government #cpi #wagefreeze #savings #bbcnews #C4News
1:03 PM · Sep 12, 2017·Twitter for Android
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freedom of choice, or tyranny
@PeteOusby
Replying to @linzcom
Inflation is a robbery, stealing the purchasing power of everybody who uses legal tender.
3:56 AM · Jul 25, 2019·Twitter for Android
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89239
@RrFGzJmIcFnhlVA
Inflation is just a robbery in slow motion.
#bitcoin is the answer.
7:29 PM · Aug 1, 2019·Twitter for Android
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Increase US Interest Rates
@NYwallstreetguy
Inflation is robbery by your home country government. Change 80 year old unemployed, living off 4% of my nest egg a year mind
11:02 PM · Sep 8, 2019·Twitter for iPhone
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kirin
@491300363
Replying to @PeacefulTreason and @EraseState
hyper inflation is robbery
9:15 AM · Mar 25, 2020·Twitter Web App
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Two If By Sea
@WhyNotMeToo2
Replying to @untamedspecies
What’s ironic is that this shiny Fed money printer seems to negate the need to tax people. The real highway robbery is inflation, it steals your money very slowly and quietly. Until it’s not so slow and quiet anymore to exchange a bucket of cash for a dozen eggs.
Venezuela.
10:03 AM · May 26, 2020·Twitter Web App
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Fantan Makumusha
@makumusha
Inflation is robbery. Its criminal. Its worse than an armed robber becoz an ordinary citizen cnt defend hismself from it. Inflation robes peoples earnings, savings assets and value. The governor of th RBZ shud b made to account fr pipos losses! He should b procecuted
11:38 AM · Jul 6, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
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fabo
@fabianlunax
Replying to @UtdAlii
Inflation is a new form of robbery.
12:41 PM · Jul 20, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
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Roger Ver
@rogerkver
The most common form of robbery is inflation.
12:13 PM · Jul 26, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
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Bitcoin Jesus
@theholybtcjesus
Replying to @rogerkver
Sure, the most common form of robbery is inflation. It’s a good thing b-cash isn’t wide spread because it’s a scam.
Don’t rob your self of bitcoin, don’t buy this trash
12:31 PM · Jul 26, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
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Anshul Kharb
@anshuIkharb
“Inflation is legalised robbery.”
3:25 PM · Jul 26, 2020·Twitter for Android