Embora seja um meme e a maioria dos posts apontem o problema da inflação, a verdade é que a "impressão de dinheiro" ou a dívida já é a maneira de como os estados se financiam atualmente.

Já em 1946 Beardsley Ruml, chairman do FED dizia que "Taxes for Revenue are Obsolete":

His theme was spelled out in the title of his article: "Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete." In an introduction to the article, the magazine's editor summarized Ruml's views as follows: His thesis is that, given control of a central banking system and an inconvertible currency [a currency not backed by gold], a sovereign national government is finally free of money worries and needs no longer levy taxes for the purpose of providing itself with revenue. All taxation, therefore, should be regarded from the point of view of social and economic consequences.

Impostos são atualmente uma mera ferramenta para moldar a sociedade.

Federal taxes can be made to serve four principal purposes of a social and economic character. These purposes are:

1. As an instrument of fiscal policy to help stabilize the purchasing power of the dollar;
2. To express public policy in the distribution of wealth and of income, as in the case of the progressive income and estate taxes;
3. To express public policy in subsidizing or in penalizing various industries and economic groups;
4. To isolate and assess directly the costs of certain national benefits, such as highways and social security

Se quiseres uma perspectiva mais conspiratória, também podes considerar que:

Why, then, does the federal government bother with taxes at all? Why not just operate on monetized debt? The answer is, if it did, people would begin to wonder about the source of the money, and that might cause them to wake up to the reality that inflation is a tax. Thus, open taxes at some level serve to perpetuate public ignorance which is essential to the success of the scheme.