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by trod1234 395 days ago
> I have not seen an explanation that makes the case for taxes ... This is sort of what I mean by the discourse ignoring inflation.

I've not seen one that is properly based in reason either, most lines of thought in this vein typically use a strawman version of Say's law as the basis, following a deeply carved fallacy in economics from an early error of Keynes.