Baron Munchausen managed to escape a swamp by pulling on his own hair. In a similar vein, some commentators have recently argued that Japan could pull itself out of its debt morass by using carefully designed tax increases to lift both fiscal revenue and demand. Sadly, as with the stories related by the Baron, there is a lot of wishful thinking involved.
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