It doesn't work like that now, otherwise Obama never would have authorized NCFRR.
Obama does not understand the monetary system.
Simpsons-Bowles would be a meaningless expression.
Well no. Not meaningless. It's misguided because it is premised on a failure to understand the monetary system and the results were harmful because they disregard macroeconomic thought.
Revenues, debt and deficeits matter.
Not for the reasons you think. Revenues matter because they express how much money the government is destroying over a given time period, which impacts aggregate demand. Debt matters because it expresses the size of the national bank, a government spending program that favors higher income earners. And deficits matter because they express how much money the government has net spent over a given time period, which impacts aggregate demand. That is how each matters. None matters
per se but only in relation to the real economy.
The reality is the people that would have the power and authority to enact your solution(s) would never make it to office. That's it. It's that simple.
Hence why I have to keep repeating myself. First you revel in paying corporations inflated sums for services, and now you revel in the fact that the political class is ignorant. The ignorance of (and sometimes class consciousness of and deliberate obfuscation by) the political class is not a good enough reason for me to stop making sense. I am not going to start talking about the universe in creationist terms just because a lot of politicians are stupid enough to believe it (or at least pretend they are). That's what you are asking me to do.
What I take issue with is the idea that a government can just inflate its currency to pay for anything it wants and/or to erase any debt. I'm sure you have some academic support, I'm just imagining that this would be a quick way to have an actual worthless currency, rather than one imaginably worthless.
That's called inflation, right? What am I missing? If it's so easy and obvious, why hasn't the idea won out?
What you are missing is what a lot of people miss when they first hear about this. And that is that there is no difference between "inflate its currency" and "spending." Every time the government spends money (on anything, for any reason) it creates money. All spending is the mathematical equivalent of money creation at the point of spending. And all revenue is the mathematical equivalent of money destruction. So the government is constantly "inflating" and "deflating" its currency. The only question is the appropriate
rate of money creation (or destruction, although the norm
will be creation because more money is needed over time to circulate in a growing economy with a growing population). Figuring out what that appropriate rate of "inflation" is requires looking to the broader economy to see whether and how much it needs to be heated up.
I am using inflation in scare quotes because it is not technically inflation. Inflation is a rise in the price of goods and services, not a rise in the amount of money in circulation. A rise in the amount of money in circulation may cause inflation (if the economy's productive capacity is maxed out) but it is not itself inflation.