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The pro-natalism debate misframes the binding constraint. Transfers and zoning address symptoms; the deeper deficit is the social-meaning collapse of family formation as a status-conferring life path, which no fiscal lev…

GAO reform misidentifies the fiscal lever. The deficit trajectory is driven by entitlement growth and congressional reconciliation laxness; restoring statutory PAYGO with teeth would do more than any audit reorganization…

The administrative-state critique has converged too narrowly on Chevron deference. The harder structural reform is procedural — requiring agencies to publish counterfactual cost-benefit analyses against legislatively-spe…