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This problem should be fixed on a constitutional level. The Swiss Debt brake seems to be working, and is probably a good model to copy. https://www.efd.admin.ch/en/the-debt-brake

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>> 85% of voters approved the constitutional provision on the debt brake in 2001

Impossible to imagine this in any other country.

Compare to voting where 50% of Brits voted to destroy their economy.

That's nonsense. I think brexit was a terrible idea but people didn't vote to destroy the economy, and the British economy is still there. Losing 4% productivity relative to where it'd be otherwise is bad for sure, but not destroyed.

It takes decades to destroy economy. Even Brexit or Trump or putin cannot destroy it overnight.

The sick man of Europe gets sicker

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