Solvency: Does It Actually Solve Anything?
A bill's job is to solve a real problem. The Solvency Gap is when the bill's mechanism doesn't connect to the actual cause of the problem.
Step 1 — name the real cause
If a bill claims to 'end food insecurity by subsidizing vertical farming,' ask: what actually causes food insecurity? Income, transportation, food deserts — not farm yield. Vertical farming doesn't touch any of those.
Step 2 — measure the gap
Even if the mechanism works perfectly, what % of the problem does it solve? A bill that mandates electric police cruisers to 'fight climate change' — police cars are <0.01% of emissions. The gap is the entire problem.
Bill: Mandate metal straws in all federal cafeterias to fight ocean plastic.
Real cause of ocean plastic: industrial fishing gear (~46%) and dumped packaging from coastal cities. Federal-cafeteria straws are statistically zero. Solvency Gap = ~100%.
1. A 'Solvency Gap' argument proves:
Answer all 1 to check.
You don't need to attack the goal — just prove the bill's mechanism doesn't actually reach the cause.