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  • NO TAXES!?!
    I never said anything close to no taxes! I said the opposite of no taxes!

    I said the purpose of taxes isn’t what people think it is.
    Governments don’t need to take money so they have money to spend.

    That doesn’t remotely mean I don’t want taxes, or taxes aren’t necessary.
    Taxes are absolutely necessary!
    Taxes are the flip side of government spending.

    The government spends into the economy with one hand, and taxes out of the economy with the other hand. Taxes are the real inflation control.


  • 99% of that is correct. That is exactly what governments do. You understand exactly what I’m saying also.

    The one part that’s wrong is tiny, but absolutely foundational to what I’m saying,

    What governments do, doesn’t necessarily correlate with how things work. What they do, and have done for centuries, could be wrong.

    I’m arguing that it is wrong. I’m saying that everyone has been running their economies and making monetary policy decisions based on wrong ideas, since fiat currencies were invented.



  • Steve@communick.newstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTaxes are cool
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    I guess if you want to define the term that way, you can.
    Seems an odd choice of phrase.

    If you export something, you don’t have it domestically any more.
    But this doesn’t work that way.

    Diluting is a better term. But diluting isn’t exporting.

    But still, that’s nothing to do with what I was saying.
    Which is why I’m not sure you understood what I was saying.






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    That’s the old economic model that treats a government like any other organization in the economy. It’s not.

    Taxes aren’t loans. Banks aren’t governments. Completely different and uncomparable.

    The difference is banks don’t control their own currency. That single difference changes everything.