It’s easy to forget that individual saving in no way shrinks consumption. Short of placing money saved into a coffee can, to save is to shift consumptive ability to someone else.
What’s true about individual saving is true about government savings. No act of parsimony shrinks the size of government either. That’s why Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) wouldn’t have worked even if it had worked.
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