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> For a nation with it's own fiat currency (currency issuers) government spending creates money, and the role of taxes is not to fund spending. Taxes fulfill other roles, like controlling inflation and expressing social policy.

If government spending creates money where does the money the government spends come from?

parent vageli 7 years ago

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