Does the country steal your money? If it does, do you know how?

Does the country steal your money?

If it does, do you know how?

Without anyone knowing, very simply.

Not by imposing taxes.

Or rather, not only by imposing taxes.

Taxes are quite trivial in comparison. Like an ant.

But there’s something else, like an elephant.

Taxes are very trivial when compared to the real theft, which is like an elephant.

So how does the country steal your money on a scale as large as an elephant?

By destroying the value of the rupee.

By destroying the value of the nation’s currency.

By causing prices to rise.

If something you bought for one rupee before the year 2000 now has to be bought for a hundred rupees today, it means that 99 rupees out of your hundred rupees from back then has been lost, stolen, absorbed away.

It means your hundred rupees today has the worth of only one old rupee.

It means you have lost 99 rupees out of every old hundred rupees, and 99 lakh out of every old one crore — it has been lost, stolen. It means the country stole it.

It means you became bankrupt without even knowing it.

It means your money remained the same in count, but shrank to one-hundredth in weight and worth — the country reduced it that way.

That is the real meaning of what it means for the Indian rupee to collapse domestically, to face devaluation.

It means exactly this: the wealth you kept in Indian rupees has vanished.

Money is something that gets eaten away by termites — the devaluation of money and the rise in prices of goods is an arrangement that lets termites eat away at money.

It is nothing but an arrangement by which the country robs you without your knowledge, letting termites in to devour and drain it away.