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Nicholas Begich: “We've been printing money that doesn't exist in order to pay…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 19:21

… to buy the things that we're used to buying and live the life that we're used to living. If we abuse that dollar and we have been abusing that dollar, We've been printing money that doesn't exist in order to pay bills that the government is running up. Right. The Federal Reserve is creating this money, loaning it to the government, saying, hey, you'll pay us back later. Well, you can only do that for so long before you start to see inflation. (19:21–19:28)

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Asserts that the government has been printing non-existent money to pay its bills.

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