Post 583695 by trashyfins@chomp.life
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(DIR) Post #583662 by dildog@mastodon.social
2018-10-17T02:48:13Z
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When you pay your taxes you have less wealth. When your government prints money, you also have less wealth. Instead of paying taxes to fund the government, why doesn't it just print money in exchange for not bothering us with taxes?
(DIR) Post #583695 by trashyfins@chomp.life
2018-10-17T02:50:16Z
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@dildog unserious answer: because furries run the internet and the rest of the world needs a good distractionserious answer: because that's how control works
(DIR) Post #583744 by popefucker@cybre.space
2018-10-17T02:53:57Z
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@dildog because inflation
(DIR) Post #583888 by dildog@mastodon.social
2018-10-17T03:06:22Z
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@popefucker Yea, I suppose. In order to make that work, they'd have to take money out of circulation in a regular fashion from somewhere. Which is probably impossible. Or it would be exactly like paying taxes except everyone gets to go out into the street and burn a pile of money every year and dance around it.
(DIR) Post #583911 by popefucker@cybre.space
2018-10-17T03:08:29Z
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@dildog I changed my mind this would be way better than taxes
(DIR) Post #584052 by meejah@mastodon.social
2018-10-17T03:23:57Z
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@dildog Governments don't control the money-supply any longer (at least in Canada); the banks do. So, that *was* what used to happen, effectively. Now we pay interest to Charter Banks instead ... :(
(DIR) Post #584058 by britt@refactorcamp.org
2018-10-17T03:24:17Z
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@dildog because the paying of taxes (sacrifice of the proceeds of real labor) is the reason people trust the money to have value