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by everybodyknows 2142 days ago
Fascinating.

>perhaps fearful of confiscation by a successful enemy or a government tax on capital, a plan that was mooted in Britain in 1920 ...

Hard asset confiscation, in the US case of gold, has been mooted, passed into law, and enforced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102