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I imagine the majority of dollars are held by Americans who can vote, and most non-Americans could always choose not to hold onto dollars.
by JamesBarney 6y ago
I imagine the majority of dollars are held by Americans who can vote, and most non-Americans could always choose not to hold onto dollars.
- ur-whale 6y agoFirst, a large fraction of Americans can't even understand the rule of 3, much less how they are being milked by their own government via (among many, many other mechanisms) inflation. Second, this is a typical "boiling the frog" type of taxation, which is slow and spread over long periods of time (typically portions of whole lifetimes) and even people with enough brains to understand the problem don't really pay attention because it's never felt as an immediate pain.