[ExI] Sell your Bitcoins!

[John Clark]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 10:48 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*>>>Where does the money come from?*
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*>> Spike, I'll be damned if I understand the point you're trying to make.
>> The money  the government will need to keep tens of millions of Americans
>> from starving to death, because they are no longer employed or employable,
>> will come from exactly the same place that this government and every other
>> government has always used to get money, through taxes…*
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> *> They can’t get enough through taxes.*
>

*Why not? I don't see why they can't if the people paying the taxes have
far far far more money than they have today, and remember according to the
Supreme Court, corporations are people. *


*>…and the printing press….*
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> *> That press cannot print wealth. Only currency*
>

*So at last you've been able to answer the question for yourself that
you've been asking over and over again which, if you remember, was "Where
does the money come from?" As for wealth, even without Nanotechnology AI
can generate that.*

*> This is the step you still haven’t explained.  Your theory is that at
> least four governors of the Federal Reserve have always been blithering
> idiots, morons, otherwise we wouldn’t have a problem?  Or that we can
> tolerate morons in that office now, but at some point in the future will
> not be able to manage with morons on that board? Assuming there are four
> non-morons and assuming that they agree with each other, they raise
> interest rates?  Is that your theory John?*
>


*No. And I'm not going to explain something AGAIN  that should be obvious
on day one to a first year economics 101 student.*


*John K Clark*
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