The Week

Republicans are pondering a budget showdown that would be, in the words of one of their analysts, “the fiscal equivalent of dropping an atomic bomb on the government.” Aw, go ahead. It’s the right thing to do. Don’t even wait for a budget crisis. Do it!

If you shut down the government, every family in the country would get a pay raise of, oh, $300 a week. Of course we’d have to give up bureaucrats and Form 1040, but most families could easily afford that. Do it!