MMTers Love When Governments Burn Money

07/25/2025 Joshua Mawhorter

Even when MMT advocates are correct that colonial governments at times burned money after receiving it for tax revenues, they still manage to get both the history and the causes wrong.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmters-love-when-governments-burn-money

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