If the Fed can print an unlimited amount of money, why does anybody need to pay tax?

[Gwaithmir]

I don't think a wheelbarrow will help much matey.
You know what they say about: if money grew on trees


When there's more paper in the currency than the toilet paper it's buying, you know you have a problem...

I was referring to various times and places where people have had to bring wheelbarrows full of cash to the grocers.  Here's a man buying an egg during the Weimar Republic. ONE egg.



Boru

I wonder how many GI's in the occupation forces gathered up boxes of that old currency for their kids and grandkids, knowing that someday it might be worth something to collectors. A friend of mine, whose father did this when he was a member of the occupational forces in Japan, recently made a small fortune from the sale of several hundred prewar bank notes.

[Rev. Rye]

Given that the hyperinflation crisis happened 22 years before the Allied forces occupied Germany, I doubt it.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Given that the hyperinflation crisis happened 22 years before the Allied forces occupied Germany, I doubt it.

Somebody could have stashed stacks of cash for fuel and never got to use it.