In the nation’s latest fiscal mood swing, the mainstream consensus has swung from “we must extend the Bush tax cuts” (in November and December 2010) toward “we must immediately cut the budget deficit.” The prevailing assumption, increasingly heard from both left and right, is that we already have far too much government debt — and any further significant increase is likely to ruin us all. This way of framing the debate is misleading — and at odds with the fiscal history of the United States. It masks the deeper and important issues here ...
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Source: The New York Times
