Economic Solutions Thread

[Eastoff]

IMO, the three biggest issues facing our economy are:
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Thank you! I edited it down not to b e rude, just to avoid huge length in the thread.

 

[Eastoff]

Here are a few radical ideas

Eliminate the penny. While it is still cheaper to make 5 pennies instead of 1 nickel, pennies do cost more to manufacture than they are worth. The US made approximately 5 billion pennies last year, so eliminating that would save the country a little more than that each year.

Staying with my penny theme, businesses would be required to raise prices to accommodate sales tax so pennies were not needed. The bump in price would be used for hiring workers, with a tax break for doing so

Legalize marijuana and tax the shit out of it. Apply the same tax to tobacco and alcohol. Also set a minimum health label on foods, with companies forced to pay tax on anything that comes in above that

Only borrow money for infrastructure

Make social security a private business. Eliminate the social security admin and save billions (not sure how to transition that one)

Place all convicted rapists, murders and other lifers on an island and let the people of the US pay per view to watch real "survivor"

I like all but the last two.

 

[maxiep]

I'm waiting to hear from our economic powerhouses, BlayerBoy and Maxie!

Given the role of government for which we have voted, we require a 25% VAT, a $3.00/gallon gas tax, elimination of all loopholes, an increase in the capital gains tax and increased income tax rates across the board, not just for the highest income. Anything else will simply blow a hole in the budget.

As for economic growth? It doesn't matter. We're all slaves to the government now.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

AUDIT THE FED, end QE

cut the pentagon budget

bring the troops home from iraq and afghanistan, and close/skeleton crew a a bunch bases around the world, they can keep a few...for now

eliminate the department of education

eliminate the irs

nationwide sales tax to make the crack dealers pay tax on their playstation 3s

make it worthwhile to build things in america, and make it cost prohibitive to import cheap chinese garbage. do this by filling factories full of people collecting welfare. let them work 20 hours a week for their free everything, and do the latter by taxing imports, especially bulk.

end most farm subsidies, we dont need to pay people not to grow things

legalize and tax most drugs, save billions on incarceration/legal fees, make billions on taxation/ possible state control

i like the catastrophic insurance idea for adults (most poor children are fully covered by state run medicare), but raise the benefit cutoff to help middle class families who are in between afford insurance for their children. ideally let states do it themselves with grants from the gov.

medicare is a mess, no idea, let old people die? holly 13, it is time to enter the carousel

tax online gambling

unions are tough, they were promised certain things...not sure what to do there, fire all the teachers/policemen/firemen? seems like a bad idea, but im open to suggestions

and last but not least

kill all the white people, then we'll be free

 

[blazerboy30]

AUDIT THE FED, end QE

cut the pentagon budget

bring the troops home from iraq and afghanistan, and close/skeleton crew a a bunch bases around the world, they can keep a few...for now

eliminate the department of education

eliminate the irs

nationwide sales tax to make the crack dealers pay tax on their playstation 3s

make it worthwhile to build things in america, and make it cost prohibitive to import cheap chinese garbage. do this by filling factories full of people collecting welfare. let them work 20 hours a week for their free everything, and do the latter by taxing imports, especially bulk.

end most farm subsidies, we dont need to pay people not to grow things

legalize and tax most drugs, save billions on incarceration/legal fees, make billions on taxation/ possible state control

i like the catastrophic insurance idea for adults (most poor children are fully covered by state run medicare), but raise the benefit cutoff to help middle class families who are in between afford insurance for their children. ideally let states do it themselves with grants from the gov.

medicare is a mess, no idea, let old people die? holly 13, it is time to enter the carousel

tax online gambling

unions are tough, they were promised certain things...not sure what to do there, fire all the teachers/policemen/firemen? seems like a bad idea, but im open to suggestions

and last but not least

kill all the white people, then we'll be free

My thought--for any "idea" post, list a significant issue that affects the economy and your idea for some solution that might help address that issue. Let's try to keep it to a single idea per post, for simplicity's sake.

You were close.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

so were you

of course i had like 27 and you had 3, so i guess i failed harder lol

 

[blazerboy30]

so were you

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