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No, it shouldn't. Governments can literally create any amounts of money. At times, the correct economic policy is to have more deficit, at times the correct economic policy is to have less deficit, and being arbitrarily bounded by artificial balance budgets (which don't apply to entities capable of issuing their own currency) implies unnecessary suffering for many.
You didn't argue anything from knowledge, you just proudly stated your uneducated opinion on the topic.
This doesn't even make sense, you're contradicting yourself, finite money and uncapped spending are literally impossible to have together. Are you an AI?
Just make more money! Who would have thought of that? Your educated opinion is quite impressive.
p.s. the US government doesn't issue their own currency, that's the Fed.
Modern Monetary Theory economists. Randall Wray, Alberto Garzón, Stephanie Kelton. John Maynard Keynes... Apparently it's such a radical thought that fools like you without economic training whatsoever can't even conceive it, and it takes scholars with decades of study of macroeconomics to realize that the limits to public spending shouldn't be arbitrary and should be dictated by macroeconomic needs and policy