John Stuart Mill, Essay IV: On Profits, And Interest in: Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy, London: John W. Parker, West Strand (1844), pp. 117-118.

When a banker, in addition to his other functions, is also an issuer of paper money, he gains an advantage (...) the banker by issuing it levies a tax on every person who has money in his hands or due to him. He thus appropriates to himself a portion of the capital of other people, and a portion of their revenue.

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About John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), also known as J. S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.