"Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich."

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In a free enterprise system, with an honest and stable money, there is dominantly a close link between effort and productivity, on the one hand, and economic reward on the other. Inflation severs this link. Reward comes to depend less and less on effort and production, and more and more on successful gambling and luck.

— Henry Hazlitt