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Re:AT&T giving $1000 bonus to all its employees because of t... by specialist on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:25AM (#15978555)
You have the arrow backwards:

Governments create demand for money by collecting taxes.

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

That's why the economy (the measure of the velocity of money) grows when taxes are raised.

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Re:AT&T giving $1000 bonus to all its employees because of t... by perseusprime11 on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:49PM (#15990336)
Modern Monetary Theory is based on collecting taxes. I am talking about a new theory that is not based on taxes at all but instead, it is based on Government making money by selling govt. land, investing social security money in high growth funds, etc.
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