[Radar]

Goddamn. I wish I knew a few ex-slaves right now, I'm sure they'd be lining up to kick you ass for equating income tax to slavery.

If you found some with an education such as Frederic Douglas, they would agree with me.

But surely then if say, one person doesn't agree murder should be illegal, the government has no right to make murder illegal and under the same arguement as you has some kind of moral 'right' to take up armed resistance because he didn't give his concent?

As an individual, you have no right to take the life of others unless it is in your own defense. You have no right to murder others and you do have a right to defend yourself even with deadly force or to allow your agents to defend you so yes, individuals CAN give this power to government because it is a right that individuals would have even without government.

Government has one purpose, to DEFEND our rights, not to limit them, not to define them, and not to infringe upon them. You do not have the right to murder, but others do have the right to live; case closed. You do not have the right to steal what others have earned, but others do have the right to keep the fruits of thier labor; case closed.

As far as Friedman goes, he STILL agrees that inflation is caused by nothing other than the government increasing the supply of money and the article in question does not define "monetarism" the same was the dictionary does.

monetarism: A theory holding that economic variations within a given system, such as changing rates of inflation, are most often caused by increases or decreases in the money supply

This has NEVER FAILED, not in the UK, not in America, not anywhere on earth. Inflation = increase in the supply of currency. Money is something of value like gold. Currency (the paper printed or coins minted) has no value and is supposed to represent money. When you have no increase in the amount of money, but a large increase in the amount of currency, you get inflation. This is indisputable by you, or anyone else on the planet.