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Comment by CraigJPerry

7 months ago

No they don’t. Every dollar the government spends is a brand new dollar. You can’t save up money in a currency that you issue.

As a fiat currency issuer, you have two options, you can create money for circulation (government spending) or you can destroy money and it’ll never circulate again (taxation).

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