Comment Funding by borrowing from the future (Score 1) 635
"Modernize and strengthen the federal social safety net". Do they imply they are going to just change it, or actually pay more welfare to more people?
And like fast food chain leaders have already said "If you raise the minimum wage, we replace the people with robots".
I imagine if you are going to actually increase welfare spending, you (the US government) are going to need to just borrow more money. Perhaps a few hundreds of trillions from China to fund it, with a deal that says it's due to start being payed down after 2100. Where the premise is that future technologies will enable massive savings and generate massive incomes, so that by 2100 paying back those trillions over the next decades will be easy enough.