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Helicopter money solves infrastructure.
Robert Skidelsky, 9-22-2016, member of the British House of Lords and Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University, "Helicopter Money Is in the Air," Project Syndicate, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/helicopter-money-in-the-air-by-robert-skidelsky-2016-09
Alternatively, helicopter money could be used to finance infrastructure spending. The advantage of such “monetary financing” is that such spending, while adding to the deficit and leading to a permanent increase in the money supply, would not increase the national debt, because the government would “owe” the money only to its own banker. This would eliminate the offsetting negative expectation of higher taxes.
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