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So the problem is not that they don't have enough people. The problem is that they won't have enough people to form a sizeable enough tax base in the future, given demographic trends and the situation of debt/currency destruction. The demographic trend isn't the underlying cause, but it comes at a particularly bad time.
You don't need more people, you need economic growth via capital investment, innovation, productivity gains, and government that isn't wildly fiscally irresponsible. Again, see: Germany If your theory were true, Germany would be in terrible financial trouble just like Japan. Their population decline over the last 20 years would have reduced their financial tax base, but the exact opposite happened. You do not need mo…
A) You're mostly preaching to the choir. B) If more economic growth with a declining tax base is good enough, then more economic growth with an increasing tax base would be better. Also, if insufficient economic growth with a stable population is bad, then insufficient economic growth with a declining tax base is clearly worse.
You do not need more people to grow your financial tax base.
I never said that. Please get off your soapbox and read the comments you are replying to.