Why do government inflate the value of currency by printing more if printing more does nothing to increase the buying power that government has?

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Why do government inflate the value of currency by printing more if printing more does nothing to increase the buying power that government has?

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It does increase buying power of the govt. It just does it by decreasing everyone else’s, so the total buying power stays the same.

Inflation is roughly equivalent to a flat tax of `(printed_money/total_money)*100%` on everyone.

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