Topic: Economics
Use GOLD to Help Ron Paul Fight The Inflation Tax!
You can have an impact on congress today by pressuring them to pass Dr. Paul's honest money bills.
by creator
(libertarian)
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
♣ Taxation WITHOUT Representation?
You are being secretly taxed, every day, and you have absolutely no say-so in the matter. How can this be? Inflation, created by the federal reserve bank and "blessed" by congress, robs more and more of the value of your money every day. Don't you think congress should come to your rescue and end this hidden taxation?
Ron Paul has introduced two bills in congress to give us a clear and simple way out of this dilema, and in their regular blog today, Downsize DC's Jim Babka tells us how we can take action to support Ron Paul's bills.
I have taken part in the barrage on congress today, and it took me less than a minute to do it! You too can use Downsize DC's brilliant interface to increase the pressure on congress to do the right thing.
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With their permission, I now turn the floor over to Downsize DC:
Today's Downsizer Dispatch . . .
Fighting the Inflation Tax with Gold
Quote of the day:
"No gold-digging for me... I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday."
- Mae West
Subject: Fighting the Inflation Tax with Gold
Inflation is back -- at the pump, at the grocery store, and in your utility bills. The higher prices you're paying are caused, in large part, by Federal Reserve (FED) money creation. Like counterfeiters, the FED creates money almost out of thin air.
Frankly, we'd like to see the FED closed. But how? We'd need a plan.
Some impressive minds, like Ludwig von Mises, Ron Paul, and Edwin Viera think the best way to fight the FED, is to open the door for . . .
Private money, based on gold, NOT denominated in dollars, but by weight, that competes against Federal Reserve Notes (dollars).
Make dollars compete with gold and the FED's ability to generate new dollars could be constricted. FED counterfeiting would be less and less relevant. It would be like yanking the teeth from a weakened beast, and only then calling for a fight.
But why gold?
* Gold can't be counterfeited or easily manipulated by political forces.
* Gold retains its purchasing power. Gold even allows you to buy more as production technologies improve.
Investment writer Bill Bonner recently reported . . .
"To show you the scope of the phenomenon, we pull out a copy of The New York Times from October 19th, 1896. There, it is recorded in black and white that the average wheat price was about $1 a bushel – in gold – during the previous 20 years. An ounce of gold would buy you 20 bushels of wheat. Today, you can buy a bushel of wheat for about $12 which means, an ounce of gold will buy about 75 bushels of wheat. In terms of real money – gold – the price of wheat has gone down for more than 100 years. However fast farmers have added to the world’s wheat output, in other words, central banks have outdone them, planting far more acreage in paper money."
Even the price of oil, which has been subject to massive government price distortion, has remained steady when denominated in gold. (NOTE: Right here in this blog post you can see three charts, from three different reliable sources, that demonstrate this point.)
Virtually everyone, most painfully families and those on fixed incomes, know that they're paying more at the pump, at the grocery store and for utilities.
Here's the point: Inflation is a tax -- a hidden, sneaky levy.
YOU are being taxed. 
Who benefits from the FED's money machine? The bloated federal government gets most of the first fruits of the FED's counterfeiting to spend on unnecessary wars and cow flatulence museums.
And by "first fruit," we mean when the dollars are new, before they've washed through the economy. Your friendly federal government gets to spend those fresh dollars before they cause price inflation. It's like having an inside source to tell you when the price of any given item is going to increase. You could walk into the store and buy a computer, a car, or a case of Coca-Cola today, for less than all of tomorrow's suckers will pay -- except in this case, the American people are the suckers.
But there's no printing new gold. And there's no first fruit privilege on gold either. 
Gold is Honest Money.
Imagine a world where everyone wants to be paid in gold instead of those depreciating dollars!
So how do we reach the point where the dollar competes with Honest Money? Two big hurdles are:
1) Federal Reserve Notes (dollars, greenbacks) enjoy a monopoly status called "legal tender" and,
2) The Federal Mint holds a monopoly for coining money.
Let's start by removing these hurdles, and gold may be able to compete.
* You already use the mechanisms that would make "gold money" practical, every time you whip out your debit card.
* Money would be defined more by the market, and less by government. At first, computers could calculate conversion rates in real time. Over time, people would simply think of price by weight of gold.
Would you like to close the FED? The first, "fabian" steps are breaking the legal tender and minting monopolies. Then, the FED becomes toothless and vulnerable.
Congressman Ron Paul has introduced two "honest money" bills that we've combined into one campaign at DownsizeDC.org -- "End the Inflation Tax."
Please, go there now and send a message. Tell your representatives in Congress that you want them to end legal tender and permit private coining of money. Tell them to [link edited for length]
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Reader Comments:
Posted By: Lloyd Kempson
Date: 2008-05-13 10:31:54
Oh Jeezus! Ron Paul is done for we are too small right now to change things.
Posted By: David S
Date: 2008-05-13 16:29:09
I sent the letter to my congress critters too.
Lloyd you're taking a defeatist attitude. We can never win that way.
Posted By: George
Date: 2008-05-14 08:48:56
I've been using DownsizeDC and have been getting responses back from my states senators. I also use congress.org. Govtrack.us is also good for seeing what Congress is doing concerning bills. Just skimming over the bills introduced by Ron Paul, it appears that he is a on a mission for freedom and liberty. Check it out.
Posted By: Asref Yousef Al-Mu\\\'tasim
Date: 2008-05-14 14:07:48
I find it strange to see much American Oilmen buying Gold bars in the Dubai Gold Souk.
Posted By: Donald E. Iiams, Jr.
Date: 2009-07-21 23:43:44
I want to sent you an e mail with an attachment: a DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S CORRUPT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, that every issue stated in it can be proven. The only issue that I cannot prove yet is which agency of the Government attempted to kill me by having my Ford Expedition SUV crash into a concrete bridge abutment at 55 to 65 miles an hour at 5:00 am on Monclova Road in Maumee, Ohio on August 13, 2008. This is the same day that I was supposed to go before the Tax Court to fight the extortionist of the IRS. I had already won the issues with the Senate Finance Committee. They investigated my case during their hearing on IRS abuse of the American people. Agnes Lucas of the IRS investigated my case and came back telling me that I did nothing wrong, I was not guilty of the IRS charges and they would have to pay me for the hell they put me through for 17 plus years, which all can be proven. I sent the DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S CORRUPT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, to President Obama, Vice President and head of the Senate Joe Biden and the head of Congress by FEDEX on July 2, 2009 next day delivery.
We have to make our Government the great Government described in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights while we still can. Soon, almost all Americans will be considered TERRORIST.
When one stands up against our Government and fights back, it seems everyone in the news media backs away. I know that your a fighter and I wanted you to know what happened to me. Any assistance you can give me and the American people will be greatly appreciated. Also, my web site is: [link edited for length].
Sincerely,
Donald E. Iiams, Jr.
diiams123@yahoo.com
419-340-9407
Posted By: Donald E. Iiams, Jr.
Date: 2009-07-22 17:59:22
I want to sent you an e mail with an attachment: a DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S CORRUPT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, that every issue stated in it can be proven. The only issue that I cannot prove yet is which agency of the Government attempted to kill me by having my Ford Expedition SUV crash into a concrete bridge abutment at 55 to 65 miles an hour at 5:00 am on Monclova Road in Maumee, Ohio on August 13, 2008. This is the same day that I was supposed to go before the Tax Court to fight the extortionist of the IRS. I had already won the issues with the Senate Finance Committee. They investigated my case during their hearing on IRS abuse of the American people. Agnes Lucas of the IRS investigated my case and came back telling me that I did nothing wrong, I was not guilty of the IRS charges and they would have to pay me for the hell they put me through for 17 plus years, which all can be proven. I sent the DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S CORRUPT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, to President Obama, Vice President and head of the Senate Joe Biden and the head of Congress by FEDEX on July 2, 2009 next day delivery.
We have to make our Government the great Government described in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights while we still can. Soon, almost all Americans will be considered TERRORIST.
When one stands up against our Government and fights back, it seems everyone in the news media backs away. I know that your a fighter and I wanted you to know what happened to me. Any assistance you can give me and the American people will be greatly appreciated. Also, my web site is: [link edited for length].
Sincerely,
Donald E. Iiams, Jr.
diiams123@yahoo.com
419-340-9407