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by rout39574 1663 days ago
If you don't intend to be hyperinflationary, the printing of money has to be associated with the acquisition of value or the assumption of debt. The debt is repaid through taxation.

Grandparent comment is referring to the position that taxes are extracted via threat of force. This is an extremely emotionally fraught position, and it's difficult to discuss rationally.

So, the reasoning goes, if you have to tax to print money, it is done by resort to force or threat thereof.

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So to paraphrase, "Printing money is inflationary, which I believe is bad, and I believe the only way to rectify that is through taxation (violence)." That means you are the one who is proposing violence, not the commenter suggesting that we print money. They never said anything about taxation.