Chicago, My kind of town....

[SamSpade]

:rats:

Don't laugh - I know grown people who think the government can JUST KEEP PRINTING MONEY with zero consequences to anything. That they can just print off a million bucks for every person in the United States, and we'd all be millionaires.

I know Sappy or whatever he calls himself these days will come in and say, yep, that's what they do but these folks think that Uncle Sam doesn't ever need to collect taxes - it can just keep printing money, as though the act of printing creates money out of nothing.

 

[GURPS]

it can just keep printing money, as though the act of printing creates money out of nothing.

The coming collapse will be epic ....

 

[DaSDGuy]

Ya big dummy, they just print it

I tried that. They got pissed.

 

[Kyle]

I tried that. They got pissed.

Government doesnt' like competition.

 

[Merlin99]

Don't laugh - I know grown people who think the government can JUST KEEP PRINTING MONEY with zero consequences to anything. That they can just print off a million bucks for every person in the United States, and we'd all be millionaires.

I know Sappy or whatever he calls himself these days will come in and say, yep, that's what they do but these folks think that Uncle Sam doesn't ever need to collect taxes - it can just keep printing money, as though the act of printing creates money out of nothing.

If the dollar isn’t tied to anything isn’t that essentially the same thing?

Coming at this from the gold standard side.

 

[BOP]

Your taxes make up a negligible percentage of any aid given

$60 Billion here, $60 Billion there...why, pretty soon, you'll be talking about real money.

 

[BOP]

So where does the money come from that the government spends?

 

[BOP]

Don't laugh - I know grown people who think the government can JUST KEEP PRINTING MONEY with zero consequences to anything. That they can just print off a million bucks for every person in the United States, and we'd all be millionaires.

I know Sappy or whatever he calls himself these days will come in and say, yep, that's what they do but these folks think that Uncle Sam doesn't ever need to collect taxes - it can just keep printing money, as though the act of printing creates money out of nothing.