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No. Fiat is backed by tax base. US has more assets than debt. Additionally US is the largest economy in the world, how much would the right to tax it be worth
by wordpad25 2y ago
No.
Fiat is backed by tax base.
US has more assets than debt.
Additionally US is the largest economy in the world, how much would the right to tax it be worth? A lot.
It's not at all just perception and influence as you claim.
- macinjosh 2y agoSo hyperinflation only happens when the tax base disappears? Perception and influence is clearly part of the picture.
- Spooky23 2y agoIt’s one of the core attributes. Zimbabwe wasn’t going to be raising a trillion dollars of revenue.
- abdullahkhalids 2y agoUS economy has been second largest for over 10 years now [1]. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-maddison-project-database?tab=chart&time=1935..latest https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-maddison-project-data...
- malfist 2y agoI don't know where that site is pulling their data from, but not even the Chinese government claims their GDP is as high as that. And our GDP is higher than that site claims
- Detrytus 2y agoThis is Purchase Power Parity GDP (as indicated by the subtitle "This data is adjusted for inflation and differences in the cost of living between countries.")
- signatoremo 2y agoHuh, the paper cites World Bank, but WB themselves report differently: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD Any other official sources would tell you that US is the largest economy in the world by GDP, which is the most commonly accepted metric.
- AnthonyMouse 2y ago> Fiat is backed by tax base. The general form of this is, it's backed by something that will accept it as payment. But then the same is true of non-fiat currencies. The value of a currency is simply, what can you get when you spend it?