US National Debt, 6 July 2006

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The Sun­day New York Times has a fea­ture in their Week in Review sec­tion called “You Fix the Bud­get”.

I’ve worked out a solu­tion, at least given the para­me­ters in the arti­cle. I know that some of you will attack this exer­cise, say­ing the basic premise is flawed, but I feel that’s just a diver­sion. Roll up your sleeves and get to work.

I’d be inter­ested in see­ing what other Log­a­rchism guests come up with as a pro­posed solu­tion. Maybe some­one will vol­un­teer to com­pile our sug­ges­tions in some way and see what areas of agree­ment (and dis­agree­ment) we have.

Here’s my solution.