> That is why I said “not literally”. Not until after I had responded. > That by definition increases the government’s ability to pay for things. For that on

> That is why I said “not literally”. Not until after I had responded. > That by definition increases the government’s ability to pay for things. For that one thing, but at the expense of reducing that same ability for everything going forward. Funny that you use "since we got off the gold standard" as a dismissal, then cite a document from that time as supposed proof of your point. This is just sophistry. The funny thing is that I actually agree with a lot of what you say about e.g. Pigovian taxes and UBI, but I don't think it's productive to misrepresent the relationship between inflation and taxes, or make self-contradicting claims, or gaslight people about what you had said earlier. Opposing points of view are fine, but you seem to be undermining something close to my own.