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There's something about price #deflation (that the purchasing power of money rises) that messes with people's ability to think properly. Instead, they assert/conclude that the economy will go down the tubes if people get more for their earnings and savings. 
The only way you end up with such a nonsense conclusion is if you have no conception of value creation in the economy. That is, if you assert that the economy is about simple statistical metrics, not the constant striving to satisfy people's wants (on their own terms, not yours).
By disregarding value creation, you get to the common (but crazy) view that if people expect their money's purchasing power to rise, they will postpone consumption (all of it, indefinitely). That is of course an impossibility. We must and want to consume.
What these anti-deflationists never consider is what consumption is for. We consume to satisfy wants. And produce to be able to consume. Anyone's choice whether and what to consume is part of their value calculus. Incentivizing people to over-consume is pure nonsense.
The fact is that production is undertaken to facilitate consumption--by offering valued want satisfaction. If people choose not to buy the good offered, it is because it doesn't offer them enough value. That's not a problem, but anti-deflationists pretend it is. Because stats.
No matter how you look at it, the anti-deflationist view--both their conclusion and the argument to back it up--lacks substance and offers no insight at all. It's at best based on a misreading of statistics.
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