can you tease this out a little? why does a decline in inflation lead to lost tax revenues?

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By creating inflation by monetizing gov debt (the cb buys newly issued bonds) money supply grows by constant GdP and pushes up asset and consumer prices (nom GdP grows). The treasury taxes nominal values like the VAT and gains relativley more if they inflate nom GdP

gotcha, just wanted to check we had the same understanding 💪🏻🤙🏼

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