<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MileKing:
The government doesn't get revenue in return for issuing money.</font>
Huh? Although I can't recall specific numbers, we did a case on this in a macro class I took from Paul Romer and the upshot was that the printing of currency and t-bills is an extremely lucrative business for the US government.
[This message has been edited by moondog (edited 05-02-2002).]