And increase the debt ceiling to give everyone UBI at the same time. Because it's a scam and doesn't matter.
The GP's facile and surface level thinking on this issue is click bate content but doesn't give any of us more insight into the meaning of a debt ceiling, budget decifits, and the problems/solutions surrounding them.
Let's say you could help everyone and print+spend money without any fake or real reason holding you back.
How long would that go for and at what point would you eventually have to say ok let's turn off the printer because there are consequences we haven't been paying attention to.
The thing that would hold you back is the amount of productive resources the country has.
You could print millions of dollars and send it to people, but that wouldn't make houses come from nowhere, so it would just increase inflation.
On the flip side, you could print millions of dollars and use it to build housing and infrastructure and fund education in the trades and so on and then it would actually help houses get built.
And so on. The point being that the notional deficit doesn't really matter at all. What matters for increasing wealth is the ability of the country to produce material wealth, and government spending is either helping that or not.
Like I said, they don't do secret stuff. People associate shame with having done something bad, and their in-the-open shamelessness is what breaks people's mental models of how to evaluate them.
There's a difference. I have a hard time thinking of anyone (other than Bernie) on the left who has followers in the same way as Trump or Elon. It's a very new (yet not new at all) type of cult of personality.
The GP's facile and surface level thinking on this issue is click bate content but doesn't give any of us more insight into the meaning of a debt ceiling, budget decifits, and the problems/solutions surrounding them.