Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management. . . The record taken, as a whole is one of hyperinflation, devaluation and monetary chaos.
The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.
There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.