> > fixing it without paying the cost at the same time may still be worse.
> That's probably true if we're talking about a tax that's more than a rounding error on the total federal budget.
Its true in any case; the fact that the total cost is very small compared to the budget means that, yes, the magnitude of any net harm from not paying for it is likely to be small (but, it also means that its also extremely easy to pay for.)
Disregard net costs because they are small means that large harms that you would block if they were proposed together become acceptable so long as they are broken up and spread out among separate bills.
> That's probably true if we're talking about a tax that's more than a rounding error on the total federal budget.
Its true in any case; the fact that the total cost is very small compared to the budget means that, yes, the magnitude of any net harm from not paying for it is likely to be small (but, it also means that its also extremely easy to pay for.)
Disregard net costs because they are small means that large harms that you would block if they were proposed together become acceptable so long as they are broken up and spread out among separate bills.