EnergyBulletin.net: The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse
The United States is an Empire. As Krassimir Petrov points out in his 2006 article “The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse”, an empire needs to tax other nation-states in addition to its own citizens. And we do it through the “Inflation Tax.” From the article:
The history of empires, from Greek and Roman, to Ottoman and British, teaches that the economic foundation of every single empire is the taxation of other nations.

