Professor Peter Klein of the University of Missouri does so in this article.
Here is the game the statists are playing. Pile up prodigious governmental debts, then tell the people that it would be catastrophic if we didn’t pay on time as a means of extracting more and more resources from the private sector — that is, the people and organizations that produce goods and services through voluntary transactions. Then spend the increased revenues on more government goodies, borrow more money, and once again say that we’re on the brink of disaster.
