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Have you been blind, all these years, to the existence, or the effects, of this monopoly of money?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Have you been blind, all these years, to the existence, or the effects, of this monopoly of money?”
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Spooner questions whether lawmakers have recognized the detrimental effects of monetary monopoly.
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They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.
On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.