A lot of professional Democrats find themselves looking at the deficit implications of the tax bills House and Senate Republicans have endorsed and are wondering to themselves why it is that they bother to pay for any of the programs they create.
As someone who has long been a proponent of caring less about debt, Im glad to see this. But to help get to a relaxed posture about debt, its also worth running down all the many perfectly good reasons legislators have from time to time to pay for programs.
One theory FDR had about the design of Social Security, for example, was that by giving it an insurance-type structure where everybody pays into the fund and then later everybody withdraws from the fund would increase the level of polit…
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