Taxes are open government theft. As Ron Paul points out, Federal Reserver money creation is secret theft, which dilutes each existing dollar, redistributes wealth, and causes the business cycle.
Ken Sturz writes about “surging prices for chocolate and beer. MSNBC is reporting that Hershey’s is raising the wholesale prices of about 1/3 of its lines of chocolate by 13%, in large part because of increases in the cost of milk and cocca. And Valentine’s less than three weeks away…
“In separate stories, MSNBC is also reporting that Anheuser Busch and many microbreweries are raising their prices as well. In the case of the small brewers, the prices hikes are due to the increasing costs of hops and barley. Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday…”
(Thanks to Robert Higgs for the illustration.)
