• nomad@infosec.pub
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    7 months ago

    “They are printing money all the time. Why can’t I do that?!”

    “They print so much money, this isn’t even a drop in the bucket. Why would you even prosecute that?”

    The US printed 3 trillion USD the last few years while exporting inflation to all uses of the USD. The stimulation checks were just a way to give some of that back to the people inside of the US who were also stolen from.

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      7 months ago

      And the stimulus got mostly spent on rent and paying back debt, so ultimately it ended up with Wall Street, who then proceeded to buy up housing with it.