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Re:A Woman Who Spent Six Years Fighting a Traffic Stop by ianferrel on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @03:04PM (#10125292)
Destroying currency doesn't destroy wealth. It just transfers it from the person who held it to everyone who holds that currency.

It's a very modest deflationary effect.

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Re:A Woman Who Spent Six Years Fighting a Traffic Stop by tsotha on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @09:00PM (#10126932)
Printing currency costs money, so they probably shouldn't actually destroy it. But you can certainly destroy money without destroying currency.
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