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Running out of fiscal space isn’t fun. It means difficult decisions have to be made to bring a country’s public finances under control and get debt down. In theory, this isn’t complicated. You can raise taxes, cut spending or sell government assets and use the proceeds to pay down debt. The problem is that – in practice – none of these things are easy or popular, so governments have a massive incentive to kick the…