Why do they raise our taxes when all they have to do is to get the Fed to print some more money out of thin air?

There are already some good answers here, but here's another way to say it. Even the one's who invented this scheme realized that they couldn't print forever unless they had a mechanism for taking some of it back out of the economy. So they print it and spend it on whatever the hell they want to, give it to whoever they want to, and those recipients get to spend it at the current value. As it distributes out to the rest of the economy, the natural devaluation of each piece of money in the total supply occurs, which you and I feel as inflation.

The income tax is the mechanism for diluting the inflationary effect by removing "excess" notes out of the economy (i.e., by taking it from you, who is so busy just trying to scrabble together a living and maybe have a little fun to make it all worth while, that you don't have/take the time to figure out how you're being screwed).

It was no coincidence that they shoved the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment through Congress at the same time.
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I hope you understand that printing money out of this air is also taxation.. it is a hidden tax.. the government either steals money from you directly, and when they cannot steal from you directly anymore they print money and steal from you with out you knowing it. THE JERK OFFS IN DC ARE CROOKS! ITS TIME THEY ALL GET BOOTED EXCEPT FOR THE ONE AND ONLY RON PAUL!

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and harder to survive like the slave they need you to be.

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So that they can invest it into something that has value. I do not think the value will last long, and while they have it, they want to ensure that their donors are getting a good return. Just my opinion, but historically isnt looting one of the final stages of a collapse? The longer they can tax the people before a final revolt, the more proffit they make off of the money that they stole. The more important question that should be answered is how they can sleep at night?

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because even keynes recognized the dangers in rampant inflation, which is why fiat money is usually lent into existence, and at interest. keynes had the idea that governments should be able to tweak the economy, but built in this false safeguard to prevent them from running amok. obviously keynes never considered an emotionally driven bunch of career politicians who care about nothing but getting reelected, and continually buy off segments of the population (e.g., the elderly).

such systems always collapse without exception. keynes was obviously only a one dimensional thinker.

inflation is the hidden tax
and income taxes are just pure redistribution--and to give
us something to complain about so we don't notice "who's
that man behind the curtain?"

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and then get rid of the federal reserve and have a new monatary system. I love it when a plan comes together.

There are three ways to fund the government:
1. Taxation
2. Borrowing
3. Printing money

1 & 2, as far as I know, do not result in inflation. 2 might result in some inflation, I'm not really sure.

But, #3 is where the inflation is at, which is why they usually try to avoid it whenever possible. Nowadays, though, it seems as though inflation is the actual goal...

The tax code is one of the primary mechanisms for them to mess with us. It's the collar and leash or the yolk and saddle.

And while you're at asking why 'they' raise taxes when they just 'print the money out', let me ask why even have taxes at all?

This should be required reading for everyone. Beardsley Ruml was a Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This is someone who knows how the system works. If they just printed money, everyone would feel the costs of government equally. By taxing, they can redistribute the burden and thus have much more power.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/RUMLTAXES.html

What Taxes Are Really For
Federal taxes can be made to serve four principal purposes of a social and economic character. These purposes are:
1. As an instrument of fiscal policy to help stabilize the purchasing power of the dollar;
2. To express public policy in the distribution of wealth and of income, as in the case of the progressive income and estate taxes;

3. To express public policy in subsidizing or in penalizing various industries and economic groups;

4. To isolate and assess directly the costs of certain national benefits, such as highways and social security.

In the recent past, we have used our federal tax program consciously for each of these purposes. In serving these purposes, the tax program is a means to an end. The purposes themselves are matters of basic national policy which should be established, in the first instance, independently of any national tax program.
Among the policy questions with which we have to deal are these:

Do we want a dollar with reasonably stable purchasing power over the years?
Do we want greater equality of wealth and of income than would result from economic forces working alone?

Do we want to subsidize certain industries and certain economic groups?

Do we want the beneficiaries of certain federal activities to be aware of what they cost?

These questions are not tax questions; they are questions as to the kind of country we want and the kind of life we want to lead. The tax program should be a means to an agreed end. The tax program should be devised as an instrument, and it should be judged by how well it serves its purpose.

Taxes, which must be paid in FRN's, give the illusion that the FRN's have value. Please consider this article: http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/milhouse062006.html