I agree, mint the coin. It’s the kind of shock that the public needs.
Or, raise the debt limit to $20 trillion, give that card up and kill it when they hit it in October 2014 right before election if they don’t curtail to the CBO projections (which without the tax increases they won’t).
We are spending junkies. We need to hit bottom. So put a great big pile of debt coke in front of the government and let them loose.