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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   "Robert Bannister"  wrote in message   
   news:b7dhmmF3aokU3@mid.individual.net...   
   > On 18/08/13 6:19 PM, Rod Speed wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   >> news:YourName-1808131542240001@203-118-187-125.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz...   
   >>> In article , tmcd@panix.com wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> In article   
   >>>> ,   
   >>>> Your Name  wrote:   
   >>>> >The greedy Government makes more than everyone else combined.  :-(   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> >If you work it out, the Government basically gets all the money,   
   >>>> >eventually.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And then ... the government eats it?  No, they spend it, on goods,   
   >>>> salaries, transfer payments, whatever.  You're being silly and   
   >>>> stitching together snapshots of flow at particular points.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The Government basically gets all the money, eventually.   
   >>>> The corporations basically get all the money, eventually.   
   >>>> The people basically gets all the money, eventually.   
   >>>   
   >>> The Government gets all the money, because eventually they have to   
   >>> dispose   
   >>> of all the used bills and coins, and that's where the trail ends.  :-p   
   >>   
   >> Very little of the money is in bills and coins anymore.   
      
   > There is a good chance that money will disappear altogether during our   
   > lifetimes,   
      
   Dunno, essentially because I doubt the illegal   
   and tax avoidance stuff will ever go cash free.   
      
   > although I've noticed one car-park I go to won't accept card for fees   
   > under $2.   
      
   They wouldn’t have any choice if there was no currency anymore.   
      
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