tax doesn’t destroy money… tax money gets recirculated… tax money is part of the economy… it literally buys goods and services
where do you think it goes?!??? do you think governments just set fire to piles of cash?
yes printing cash is a thing that governments rarely do - mostly to replace physical cash that does get destroyed, but it’s generally a very bad economic policy for governments to print cash… it devalues their currency and has a lot of truly awful flow-on effects (like loss of confident in the currency as a whole) that are far worse than the effect of having the extra cash
… and also printing cash is the opposite of what we’re talking about
Not at all, that’s what neoliberalism wants you to believe. The government creates (by printing) and destroys (by taxing) money as wants
tax doesn’t destroy money… tax money gets recirculated… tax money is part of the economy… it literally buys goods and services
where do you think it goes?!??? do you think governments just set fire to piles of cash?
yes printing cash is a thing that governments rarely do - mostly to replace physical cash that does get destroyed, but it’s generally a very bad economic policy for governments to print cash… it devalues their currency and has a lot of truly awful flow-on effects (like loss of confident in the currency as a whole) that are far worse than the effect of having the extra cash
… and also printing cash is the opposite of what we’re talking about