jfc, how fucking hard is it to come up with a simple answer? "The government definitely prints money [but printing is bad for inflation, so we prefer to borrow it, and tax people in the future to pay it back.]" There! But it's getting harder to borrow because ppl don't like being taxed for bullsh...

You can see there is an edit before he says “I don’t get it”. We don’t actually know what he was referring to when he said that. There could have been another question in between and they made the edit to make him look stupid.