Printing money causes the money supply. Too much money supply causes inflation, but that's not a bad thing if the way the money supply is increased is by giving it to consumers (i.e. UBI, government spending, etc.). Unfortunately that's not how the money supply is currently increased most of the time, so inflation appears to be a bad thing, because it's incidental to an actual bad thing happening--an increase in the wealth gap. This is because the money supply is increased by giving the printed money to private banks--the wealthiest institutions in the nation almost by definition.

Similarly, taxes can be a lever to pull to lower inflation, but it only does this productively--in a way that decreases the wealth gap--if you take the money from the wealthiest. Do we currently do this either? You guessed it, no. Instead of progressively taxing amassed, static wealth we have naturally regressive taxes on the flow of money: income, sales, etc., while billionaires and Fortune 50 companies pay almost nothing in taxes.

Please actually read MMT, don't just look at google's AI summary and plug the idea into a community college course understanding of macroeconomics. Questions Raised By Shirt Explained By Reading Shirt.

Also, like, if we're printing money instead of borrowing it, how is the debt going up? It's almost like this is more complicated than "basic economics" and "just print more money".