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>They might. Or perhaps spending might be made a little lower.

I seem to recall something from eco 101 about Guns and Butter.

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>>>The logic for one of the most profound changes in history was stated with elegant simplicity in the 1,337 words of the Declaration of Independence.
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>Yes, the change might have been profound but the declaration was to lay out the principles ad logic rather than the full raft of laws and institutions needed to keep things working behind the scenes. You could reach similar conclusions about the Magna Carta, the Bhagavad Gita, the Code of Hammurabi, the Exsurge Domine, the Rosetta Stone or even the British Bill of Rights... or the Treaty of Tordesillas or Congress of Vienna that all sought to crystallize profound thoughts without getting tied up in the worrisome details- which is what a targeted tax inevitably involves.
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>>>Deciding that things have to change is the real hurdle.
>>>Once you do that, things simplify.
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>Yes. "Things will change" is quite a famous meme from the same tome that provided my longstanding sig below, fwiw.
Yes, but things did change after 1776 and they changed after 1864 and they changed after 1932 and they changed after1964.
It's not just the decision to change, but it's also who makes it and when they make it.
But it starts with that crucial decision.
Here's how my hero put it:

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.


If you have the naïve belief that I have in the perfectibility of people, you know that change here is inevitable and you get to the task.
If you don't you argue about worrisome details.