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[–] olieman ago 

Inflation will help pay the national debt. I believe they (Fed) will continue to raise interest rates which will increase the inflation rate. Inflation will increase wages and thus tax revenue. If we, let's say, have 10% inflation, that should increase tax revenue by 10%. That is a huge amount of revenue. Estimates for 2019 is tax revenue at 3.22 trillion. Now, the key is what do we do with the increased tax revenue. Paying down the debt with inflated dollars would be wise but knowing the addiction to spending our politicians, especially democrats have, I doubt it.

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[–] antistatist ago 

I see a huge flaw in this - If I understand correctly, the Fed is the main bank that loans dollars to the government, so every new dollar printed is actually another dollar of debt, so inflation actually has the opposite effect of what you describe.

Also worth mentioning that wages never keep up with inflation.