The valid complaints about fiscal policy over the past 14 months are not that it has run up the national debt and rewarded the princes of Wall Street, but rather that it has been too limited – that we ought to have done more. Yet these policies are political losers now: nobody is proposing more stimulus.
而且，由此带来的新增债务的成本却低得出奇：在当前的利率之下，每年增税120亿美元就足以满足财政刺激项目的资金需求。只需如此微薄的代价，美国纳税人就可以额外得到1万亿美元的产品与服务，每年额外增加的就业人数累计可达1000万。