Brad has trouble with democracy

Given that the fear is based on a belief that some future congress will bust the budget, it is hard to see how we can address this fear through any possible piece of legislation today--for no congress can bind its successors.Andrew Samwick quoting DeLong

Brad is wrong, or more likely unable to step out of the box. By fixing Senate representation to be proportional, then we can insure the Senate has no few distortions in its representation. Doing so will force future congresses to match government programs to voter transactions. An accurate democracy is a bound on future government catastrophes, it forces the elites out of government and stops the Senate production of mis-matched government goods.

Fixing the Senate is easy, getting the Keynesian elites in Marin County and Berkeley to favor democracy is difficult.