license to print money

Mint with a license to print money for itself, the NFL has presided over an explosion in franchise values.

“You, sir, are an elected official in America’s most respected legislative body. It’s like a license to print money. You don’t need to break the law so cartoonishly when the legal corruption in the Senate is so f***ing lucrative,” the host said.

Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, said in July that being a lithium supplier was a “license to print money.”

“It looks a lot easier than it is, and people think it’s a license to print money — but it’s not.”

“To bill more than that, and to do this on every single baby that’s born, to me that sounds like a license to print money.”