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Originally Posted by wardp
That plastic is not printed money, it is manufactured money. Visa does not have the 50 bucks that pays the gas station operator where you just filled your tank. The operator does not pay the wholesaler with cash for the gas you just got. They give the visa receipt to the wholesaler who gives it to the supplier who gives it to the refiner who sends it overseas to the Saudi who owns the oil and he puts it in his account. There is no printed money
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Wardp, the use of words like "green ink", "printing press", and "printing money" doesn't mean that any of us actually intends to convey the idea that the government is physically printing more cash. It's obviously a metaphor.