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The Debt Ceiling

A fiscal-style ceiling for commitments you will not raise until capacity frees — Four Thousand Weeks written as a debt-ceiling vote. Live load sits above the line (what is already on the books, with cost and until). Proposed yeses sit below it, and each must name what it replaces. The tinted panel counts unfunded yeses — proposals with no replace — because that is how the ceiling gets quietly raised without a vote. If nothing can come off the books, the answer is no.

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Refusing new commitments unless they displace something already on the books.
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A still life that evokes the The Debt Ceiling

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Build your debt ceiling

Step 01 · The chamber

Whose ceiling, and when it gets voted on.

Step 02 · Live load

What is already on the books.

Write the cost in language you would say out loud. Until can be a date or "ongoing".

Step 03 · Proposed

What wants in — and what it displaces.

No replace means unfunded. If nothing can come off, the answer is no.

Step 04 · Print

Paper and download.

List the live load first. Only let in what displaces something above the line.

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