Originally Posted by Americano

When engineers, other professionals and former manufacturing employees become burger flippers, jobs are created. Energy, food and core inflation create an illusion of increased tax revenue with stagnated wages and inflated money by creating a current year 'dollar' value. Then you just print more money based on debt to pay the bills, tie it to a historical percentage of a cooked GDP while ignoring unfunded obligations and Joe Sixpack is pacified enough to let mindless entertainment reoccupy his waking hours.