Government: We're going to spend recklessly & fund it by devaluing everyone's savings.

Smart people: We're going to buy assets the government can't devalue.

Government: Those greedy smart people won't let us devalue their savings, we should pass laws to seize their assets.

Dumb people: Why is everything always getting more expensive? It's like so weird...

Government: It's those greedy billionaires. They are stealing all your money! We should seize their assets so the government can use it for important government things.

Dumb people: That's a good idea. But you'll only take stuff from billionaires right?

Government: Of course there's no way giving us the power to to seize US citizens private property can go wrong. It's totally safe, you can trust us, we're the government.

Dumb people: ok