In a recent commentary, I remarked that promises of spontaneous, glorious abundance, if achievable, are usually half-truths masking extraordinary effort, which often involves coercion, somewhere else.
These days, it is considered ignorant to pretend the national debt has any meaning. Enlightened commentators tell us the government can print more money and loan it to people in debt to stimulate the economy and generate tax revenue. Others beg the US government to accept an additional huge loan from our Most Favored Nation. The government never seems to decrease or even stabilize the deficit for all its strategies. (Who else choked when President Bush announced that his four-point, multi-billion-dollar government bank bailout strategy would support the free market?)
While liberals are hoping their grandchildren’s way out of servitude to the Chinese, here’s some new ways people are getting their fair share of the deficit while, conscientiously stimulating the economy and generating tax revenue.
