Comment by ianai

There was a point where financing the government was a patriotic act. People would give other people War Bonds as presents. But now the patriotic thing is to trash talk which ever party is in the administration and wax poetic about governmental corruption. You can't have it both ways. You can't say no to financing your government and scorn corruption. Either you're okay paying for your government, you're okay with someone else paying for your government (to possibly include other governments!), or you're okay with your government paying for itself with printed money. (That last option, seignorage, leads to hyperinflation.)