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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by tengbretson on Monday February 08, 2021 @10:37AM (#26065905)
> 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?

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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by vzcx on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:41AM (#26066822)
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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