Of course you could fund it by introducing new taxes. But it’s still trillions in spending above what we’re doing now, and there’s a rather extreme lack of imagination if paying people to play video games is the most creative and productive use you can think of for over a trillion dollars per year in new government spending.

> Also note that nearly all the analysis uses "orthodox macroeconomics," the mix of keynesianism and monetarism that seems to be falling apart as a consensus atm.

Ah, the old “money printer go brr” theory. I wonder how much 1000 Zimbabwe dollars or 1000 Weimar marks or 1000 Venezuelan bolivars will actually buy you.