To increase the tax base, the US economy needs to grow again (3% is the traditional "healthy" rate). To get it to grow again the government needs to spend money- infrastructure ( put people to work), education and the like. The danger we face is that for some reason we have forgotten economics 101 which tells us that governments need to spend their way out of a recession, that in the short term debt doesn't matter if you get the economy going again.
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To increase the tax base, the US economy needs to grow again (3% is the traditional "healthy" rate). To get it to grow again the government needs to spend money- infrastructure ( put people to work), education and the like. The danger we face is that for some reason we have forgotten economics 101 which tells us that governments need to spend their way out of a recession, that in the short term debt doesn't matter if you get the economy going again.