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If I had posted a recent article you would have said that wasn't evidence of a long term trend. The problem has gotten worse and it's impacting the entire country now. My family members work at hospitals in rural eastern WA, and not only has the local hospital system there already collapsed, but the entire Providence medical system for all of the Pacific Northwest is at risk of going under too. This is a direct result of uninsured migrant workers and medicaid underpayment.

You opened by saying that you're not proposing economic stagnation, but then wrote several paragraphs arguing for economic stagnation. Human technology isn't a finite resource.

Tax revenue is a tiny fraction of GDP, so the national debt is already many multiples over income. The current $1 trillion annual interest payments on the debt are larger than the entire defense budget. Worse, annualized interest payments are still going up by about $200B per quarter.

This is among the best job markets for workers in US history.

And yet most companies are either laying people off or have hiring freezes, and I've personally been unemployed for three months now. Your post has no basis in reality, and it sounds like you're trying to come up with post hoc justifications for your political orthodoxy.