When Congress spends money, it doesn't print it. It borrows it, at interest. Everyone talks about the national debt, but then they start talking about printing

When Congress spends money, it doesn't print it. It borrows it, at interest. Everyone talks about the national debt, but then they start talking about printing dollars in the next breath. Makes no sense. New money comes through the banking system, not Congress, and banks create money when they lend--a decision that depends on economic factors. However, when Congress moves around money, e.g. by borrowing from investors to give checks to lower income and middle class folks, that can cause inflation by shifting dollars to where they will be used for consumption rather than in investments, which tend to increase productivity which offsets inflationary effects of spending. However spending on lower income folks is almost surely a good bet in the long term, and while it may be inflationary in the short term, in the long term it must increase the productivity of the work force (and its inflationary effects can go away as soon as production in expectation of increased demand of those consumer goods ramps up).