>  > That's right... a government could have zero tax and just
>>  print money.
>>  cc
>
>That would of course also be taxation. It would be
>interesting to carry that through to its logical conclusion
>and see what effect it would have if carried out such that
>the "wealth" artifically produced in that manner did not
>exceed a level which would otherwise have been taken as tax.
>It's well known that when governments just 'print money'
>arbitrarily that the system falls apart, but I don't know
>how the cost gets distributed when it is done in a
>controlled manner.

I think the word you're looking for is "Zimbabwe"

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