Resources exist that are said to be the property of society as a whole, things like water and air. Money should be one of those community resources.
Money is required to create and maintain a healthy, prosperous economy. Money should not be a privatized resource any more than water or air should be. One of the main reasons we establish government in the first place is we all need a way to protect the common resources from exploitation by selfish individuals. One of the most important duties of government is to provide a sound (honest) monetary system for the benefit of all not just a greedy few.
Last week I covered the fraud of "fractional reserve banking," the nifty little rule that bankers made up that allows them to claim they have SUBSTANTIALLY more money than they have. For example, if a banker has a million dollars in customer deposits, he gets to say he has ten million dollars. A banker can create nine extra million dollars just by making journal entries. Bankers do nothing to earn that nine million. They just say they have it and we allow them to get away with it. For those of you who missed last week's article, you can read it here.
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