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juandazapata | 4 years ago

Can you expand on this? How would this work?

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jefftk|4 years ago

The idea is that the government prints money to cover expenses. If you could somehow force everyone to hold all their wealth in cash, this would act as a wealth tax.

This doesn't work, however, because with very high planned inflation no one wants to use your currency, and without taxation there's no reason they have to.

rorykoehler|4 years ago

They use your currency because they get paid in it. Government spending doesn't disappear into a black hole never to be seen again. [FALSE]>>> Also it's illegal to use other currencies as tender in (probably?) all countries in the world (Zimbabwe uses/used(?) the US dollar but I'm not aware of any other instances).

rorykoehler|4 years ago

Government sets an annual budget and then creates the money to pay for it out of thin air every year.