Getting the US out of debt

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Inflation doesn't work like that. Governments inflate intentionally to get out of debt sometime (that's what happened in interwar Germany), it doesn't just happen against your will. Japan, for example, has been trying to raise their inflation rate for ages while at the same time being one of the most indebted countries in the world, and hasn't had a huge amount of success. The idea that debt=inflation has long been discredited.

Your plan is also completely insane. Completely open borders, moving the tax burden to sales tax, and an end to welfare would lead to race/class riots and the collapse of civil order. A cut of that level in military spending would render the US geopolitically insolvent. And less births are the last thing that a country with a rapidly inverting population pyramid needs.
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Inflation doesn't work like that. Governments inflate intentionally to get out of debt sometime (that's what happened in interwar Germany), it doesn't just happen against your will. Japan, for example, has been trying to raise their inflation rate for ages while at the same time being one of the most indebted countries in the world, and hasn't had a huge amount of success. The idea that debt=inflation has long been discredited.
I don't advocate for inflation.

Your plan is also completely insane. Completely open borders, moving the tax burden to sales tax, and an end to welfare would lead to race/class riots and the collapse of civil order. 
How so?

A cut of that level in military spending would render the US geopolitically insolvent.
Not true.  With the massive increase in GDP, we can spend 1% of our GDP on the military and it would still have an increase in overall spending by about $100 billion.

And less births are the last thing that a country with a rapidly inverting population pyramid needs.
I don't advocate less births.  Births should be up to the individual to decide how many they want.