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> Why would prices increase?

Inflation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation

You inject a double-digit percentage of all cash that exists into the economy year-after-year -- numbers bounded about in this very thread are on the order of 1/3 of all US dollars in existence, just for Americans to receive a minimal, poverty rate handout -- I guarantee you there will be inflation at levels that have never been seen since the founding of this country.




But isn't the idea to take that money in the form of taxes rather than just printing it?




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