“In the big picture, inflation supports big government. It is a major method of financing governments. With the help of inflation and the inflation tax, government is orders of magnitude larger. Inflation therefore supports the evils of big government. For example, big government quite often chooses armaments and warfare. In this way, inflation helps states to maintain belligerent postures toward one another that lead to waste, frictions, and wars that undermine economic progress. Inflation helps governments to control their peoples or peoples they claim sovereignty over. They often are then enabled to make war on dissident and breakaway movements. Inflation enables governments to finance social programs, many of which undermine the society they purport to support. Inflation benefits some in society at the expense of others. This invariably undermines social cooperation…”

Michael Rozeff, Lew Rockwell