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Yes, let's test this theory on 300 million people.

• ISL 13y ago
  Not choosing sides here (both sides are being irresponsible and goofy (or not), one perhaps more than the other). To address your rebuttal: To get better statistics, more-local democracy, and reduce the likelihood of catastrophic failure, we could partition those 300 million into roughly 50 subunits and let each partition vote on what ought to happen.
  • beering 13y ago
    Problem is, those partitions are far too leaky as people, goods, and money move across the partition so freely.
• maratd 13y ago
  What horrific consequences do you imagine will manifest themselves from the government spending only what it takes in?
  • dllthomas 13y ago
    Do you mean as a strategy, to avoid issues like (and unlike) this in the future? Or as a tactic to avoid exceeding the debt ceiling this month? The answers are different, and the former more debatable than the latter.