Inflation Quote by Milton Friedman Download Open image ““Inflation is taxation without representation.”” — Milton Friedman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inflation Inflation Taxation Politics Representation Taxation Taxation Representation
“Here we shall have to say simply that all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that inflation itself… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The arithmetic makes it plain that inflation is afar more devastating tax than anything that has been enacted by our legislature. The inflation tax… — Janet Lowe Copy Share Image
Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that we all collectively must pay. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“In a blind pursuit of endless revenue, we've confused inflation with civilization.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“A tax dollar paid today is far more expensive than one paid in future dollars. With inflation, money becomes less valuable over time because… — Coreen T. Sol Copy Share Image
There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the… — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure. — John J. Beckley Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?! — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them to have… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly. — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again. — Karl Otto Pohl Copy Share Image
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a… — James Rosapepe Copy Share Image
By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures… — Paul A. Volcker Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
