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Yup. Treaty of Versailles and all that. Pretty much led to WWII. rolleyes

Eh..
Eh.. A 5% inflation would definitly hurt our economy and lead more people to poverty.. I believe it would have to be over a 5% inflation to even make such an action possible even..
You wouldn't mind but I would and so would several millions of people too..

Do some reserach on american history first..
After WWI the usa had a major inflation.. Ironic about what happens next? The usa enters a state called the great depression..
Why?
1. Inflation effect..
A. Living cost was increased
B. Worker's wages had to be increased so they could keep up but companies couldn't afford to do so and keep all their employees employed due to the increase in operating cost..

To do something as stupid as inflate the usa money right now.. I highly doubt any of the politicians that supported it will be in office after the next elections. A small percentage of the population are actually wealth while most of us are middle class..
Most of us entering university have to take out loans to even afford it or seek goverment assistance.. Tutition fees keep going up.. <<;

Right now the USA goverment is in debt..

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True but it's still amazing to take a look at how much we're in right now..

Niph ~ xd Yay for a source finally!

Again another ideal that wouldn't work out..
It would be shot down rather fast.
Honestly, the usa goverment wouldn't redistribute the money like that, they would have to be rather stupid to try to pull something like that off..
1. Most of our politicians are rich.
2. Individualism.
3. Fears of communism.
4. Has there been a country that has pulled off such a thing without problems?
Lobbiest and the rich are rather influencial..

In general, I don't think that ideal is even fair at all, you work yourself to your riches to have someone else take it away then give it to some poor person doesn't work as hard as you. It takes away all the point of hard work and competition.

Mean inflation, the poor do suffer more.. They'd have to pay more along with the other classes too..

What do you mean when you say for goverment ot get wealthy?
Politicians are paided a fixed annual income.

While everything else the EU goverment seems to be imposing sounds similar to the usa's social security plan. The goverment does use some of the money to fund education and other programs in the usa.

Fiscal budget for usa 2006

But for the changes you are proposing, it takes time to make change and for change to happen is mainly support from the people to want change.

My dear Raioga, a little reality check for you. As much as we, the public and the skeptic media like to try and incriminate the people who lead our country, sometimes it can go a little too far. And while I agree that certain western gov'ts do invade countries randomly and earn a lot, perhaps accusing them of getting huge bribes and retiring as billionaires is a little OTT. Don't be caught in gov't propaganda, but don't be caught in the 'I'm anti-gov't and therefore I'm cooler than you because I pretend to understand things' camp either.

Erm. I believe the US has healthcare. And education. And a damn lot more life long security than people in, say, Somali, where they're still being blown up by their neighbours' children.

Yay for sources. And medals.

Serious inflation hurts everyone, not just the rich. The theory is simple: if you print more money and if there's more money around, then the money is worth less. And that will hurt people who have less money in the first place much more than those who have more.