"I want a lawyer, dawg." Turns out any reasonable third party would also have assumed he wants a literal dog who is a lawyer, like some sort of fucking Air Bud public defender.
If the government isn't able to issue more currency, isn't the alternative that they must pay everything from tax revenue and therefore be raising taxes more often? Wouldn't that also hit laborers harder in the current scenario, since the loans and unrealized gains in stocks are untaxed?