we're all getting paid in and paying taxes with fiat money, meaningless paper. The fed reserve likes to have a lot of control over that. Whether you pay a sales tax, a tax on stamps or tea, income, property, wall st, any of it, it's the same. Sending some money back from where it came. Some people could potentially save up all that monopoly money and get powerful but the fed uses inflation and taxes to keep new money from rising.