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Cryptocurrency News Articles
Minneapolis Fed Paper Suggests Bitcoin BTC $68,969 May Need to Be Taxed or Banned for Governments to Maintain Deficits
Oct 21, 2024 at 11:54 am
A recent research paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has suggested that assets such as Bitcoin would need to be taxed or banned
A recent research paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has suggested that assets such as Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) would need to be taxed or banned for governments to be able to maintain deficits.
In an economy where the government tries to maintain permanent deficits using nominal debt, the presence of Bitcoin creates problems for policy implementation, the Minneapolis Fed stated in a working paper released on Oct. 17.
Bitcoin introduces a “balanced budget trap,” an alternative state where the government is forced to balance its budget, the Fed claimed.
The researchers used Bitcoin as an example of a fixed-supply “private-sector security” without “real resource claims.” They concluded that it needed to be banned or taxed to solve the conundrum.
A primary deficit occurs when a government spends more than it collects in taxes and other revenue, excluding interest payments on its debt.
The term “permanent” for the primary deficit is key as it means the government plans to keep spending more than it collects indefinitely.
The U.S. had a primary deficit of $1.76 trillion in fiscal year 2023, which ended Sept. 30, according to the Treasury Department.
The biggest driver of the year’s deficit, the largest outside of the COVID-19 era, was a 29% increase to $1.13 trillion in interest costs for Treasury debt due to higher rates and more debt to finance, reported Reuters on Oct. 19.
Head of digital asset research at VanEck, Matthew Sigel, commented on the paper on Oct. 21, stating that the Minneapolis Fed has joined the European Central Bank in its attack on Bitcoin, adding that it:
Meanwhile, Messari co-founder Dan McArdle dug up a 1996 Minneapolis Fed paper called “Money is Memory,” which, in an interesting twist, argued the case for Bitcoin 12 years before the genesis block.
The paper defined money as an object that does not “enter production,” is “available in fixed supply,” and is “equivalent to a primitive form of memory.”
Related: Bitcoin-hating European Central Bank isn't doing much to stop scammers
On Oct. 12, the ECB released a paper claiming that older Bitcoin holders are profiting at the expense of newer holders. It argued that the asset should be regulated to prevent its price from rising or banned outright.
ECB Senior Management adviser Jürgen Schaaf joined the calls to kill Bitcoin in a post on X on Oct. 20.
“Non-holders should recognize that Bitcoin’s rise is fuelled by wealth redistribution at their expense,” he said before adding, “There are compelling reasons to advocate for policies that curb Bitcoin’s growth or even eliminate it.”
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