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> That has very little to do with currency and everything to do with you not wanting to pay taxes.

> You may think that COVID response has been a catastrophic waste of money but if you'd lost your job would you have claimed the increased unemployment benefits? I suspect the vast majority of people would have.

Do our expenditures like unemployment benefits actually have any relationship with tax revenue at this point?




Only weakly in that others will only extend credit to USG as long as their revenues are sufficient that they do not default.




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