why do we borrow to fund our budgets? why not just print

Economics Economics Questions
1

the money we need

before you jump to conclusions, yes i know printing money is inflationary and counterfeit

but even if we sell bonds, we have to pay them in the future, and the truth is the USA can’t pay the money back

unless it prints, because the government does not have all the social security, China debt etc money

So if they have to end up printing the money anyway, why sell bonds?

2

Since when does the government do anything that makes sense?

3

They have to pretend that there is a bond market, even if they just print money to lend to banks so they can buy the bonds.