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Comment by mschuster91

3 years ago

So what? It's not like that money is lost. It ends all back in the economy because people spend their wages.

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logicchains  3 years ago

Money is just paper. The _value_ is lost; if the government buys itself a banana, that's one less banana available to the people.

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