The State of Things
Becker and Posner write:
But if we continue running huge deficits, continue being unable politically either to cut spending significantly or raise taxes significantly, continue adding huge new spending progams, continue increasing the ratio of elderly to young, continue raising the minimum wage and promoting unionism, turn protectionist, resist immigration, and become even more deeply involved in military operations, we too may eventually go the way of Europe, even the way of Greece. Nowhere is it written that the United States can never decline.