that's only true if the savings from growing larger outweigh the total increase in deficit when cost per capita is greater than the revenue per capita....if merely increasing the population was  a panacea for a nation's finances, then countries with large populations would be doing better than us....look around the world and you will notice that isn't true ... and this ignores the cost of environmental degradation caused by increasing our population...I am concerned that our "leaders" are leading us to disaster to help achieve short term profits for their friends in the real estate development industry...cheered on by the banks who expect to be bailed out when everything crashes....think about it...why can't the population shrink....why is this such a disaster????