STARVING VS. STUFFING THE BEAST. There is a school — you might call it “Leninist Libertarianism” after Lenin’s “the worse, the better” — that suggests the best thing to do is to give the big-spenders their head until they bring the whole system down in a financial collapse that will force the reorganization of government along smaller lines. My question is, how likely is it to work out that way? I imagine somebody was probably holding forth along those lines in a Weimar-Republic cafe somewhere . . . .