I'm pleased that you can conceptually see this "possibility", for lack of a better word. It speaks of creativity and imagination.

That your conclusion seems locked-in on this possibility as the only solution, is needlessly below your abilities and shows mental rigidity or tunnel vision.

Currency and Taxation CAN and HAVE been weaponized as you described, but so has a carrot. Just because a carrot CAN and HAS been used to stab through someone's eye and pierce their brain, killing them, doesn't mean that this is what carrots are for, or how public policy should treat carrots.