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They print money for the government budget but that massively inflates the money supply so to counterbalance that inflation, they destroy all the money that was paid in taxes by their citizens
Taxpayer money funding government budget is fairly accurate
It wasn’t all tax revenue but taxes were definitely necessary for the US economy to not collapse while funding the war machine