Exactly. The government ultimately has to print the money that it uses to bail out these guys (who deserve to fail anyway) - the consequence of this printing is

Exactly. The government ultimately has to print the money that it uses to bail out these guys (who deserve to fail anyway) - the consequence of this printing is that the dollars in your pocket can't buy as much as they could before. Taxes are not the only way to tax people. * Yes, the government has been playing this game for around a century. But does that make it right to tack on another trillion in the theft?