re: "Conservatism" has to be more than just a defensive posture

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You understand this is paradoxal right? Cut spending and you cut GDP.

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which will, in turn, lower GDP,

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What we really need is to grow the private sector

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Not really possible. Do the math and calculate what sort of GDP increase we will need (assuming no extra government spending and a return in taxers of 20% of GDP).

Every $100B in tax growth will require $500B in private sector GDP expansion. Our current deficit is $1.6T, so just to get even (ignoring the debt), our private sector GDP will have to increase what, $8T?

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