The price of them simply goes up. It s not so much how many dollars you have, but, how much they buy. What your store of value s purchasing power is. A central bank is a government s mechanism for creating money that is not backed by anything. Just like today s copying machines are the mechanisms that counterfeiters use to create money that is not backed by anything.
Politicians know that there is a limit to how fast they can raise tax rates.
And, the less they have to spend on other programs. They only have one means left to come up with more money. In this country, the Federal Reserve Bank. They simply order the bureaucrats at the Fed to make money. How they do it is a bit convoluted but they get the job done.