Keep it then, I don’t want this shit you stank ass mfer
its all accounting, baby. wait till you hear about the money the government gets in taxes and gives to departments which then have to pay taxes with the taxes :stalin-stressed:
That's the purpose of taxes - to create a demand for the currency that only they can mint and distribute.
The us government definitely makes and distributes it’s currency
https://www.uscurrency.gov/life-cycle/journey-circulation
you said usgov doesnt mint or distribute its money, which is just flat out wrong. the us government quite literally mints and distributes its own money. there are government employees who are in charge of doing so. there are workers at the government run money making factory who make money, and workers who take that money and ship it across the nation per the governments orders. if you wanted to pretend like your original comment was about literally anything else, then you shouldve worded it better
i am using the most commonly accepted definition of the word 'mint'
It's interesting how economists and sane people view taxes differently. Normal people think taxes are collected by the government to pay for things, which makes perfect sense because that's how everyone without their own mint uses money. But in (macro)economics, they actually view taxes as the destruction of money. To them it's just something the government has to do sometimes to keep inflation down. I guess both groups are right in their own way, but I wonder if the conceptual difference is some of what leads economists/capitalists to rage so hard whenever any government tries to raise taxes.
