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That's pretty funny, since a trivial analysis of the flows of real goods and services will show that your kids are going to almost entirely consume the real goods and services that they produce.

No, what excessive deficit spending does is generate an excess of financial assets that lay claim to the same pile of goods and services. This makes the financial assets less valuable, reducing the ability for current savers to trade their assets for today's real goods and services. This is through a combination of an increase in interest rates (reducing the value of bonds) or through outright inflation.

Another way of thinking about it: the supply of real goods and services is relatively fixed, so what happens when the government consumes more today? Somehow this needs to reduce the real goods and services consumed by society, and that can only happen in a few ways: involuntarily through taxation, involuntarily through loss of purchasing power due to inflation, or voluntarily through selling more attractive financial assets.



The supply of real goods is anything but fixed.

On my side, I have evidence like the global population doubling while poverty plummeted.

There's still lots of people without enough to eat, but 30 or 40 years ago was a completely different story, it was much worse.


Fixed, in the short run, with respect to money, while there is sufficient money in the economy.


Part of the argument of Keynes was observing that supply is not at all fixed, there is idle capacity - unemployed people and idle physical capital. Production can be increased without inflation up until "full employment" is reached.


The curve of money supply versus output is flat at the "way too much money" end of it. If there isn't enough money then obviously you fix the problem - but this isn't where the deficit hawks are usually worried about debt.




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