US Economic Ideas of the 21st Century
Tariffs! Why? We aren't sure.
What if immigrants were bad?
What if immigrants were good?
Nationalization of industry, but for the sole purpose of enabling corruption.
Bring back US manufacturing! Compete with China head to he- hahahahaha sorry couldn't keep a straight face for that one
Maybe AI will fix everything somehow?
Deregulation, but woke this time.
Remember the minimum wage? Been a while since we tinkered with that bad boy, huh?
Seems a little entitled to expect to "retire", no?
Presumably we can keep getting away with running huge deficits forever.
Well, if we aren't building housing anyway, we might as well do rent control. Fuck 'em.
We have monetized the torment nexus.
Price controls, laser-targeted at the sectors with the thinnest profit margins.
Oyy! You got an environmental review for that?
Surely these seven tech stocks will keep going up at the same rate indefinitely, right?
Literally anything except raising taxes. Nothing else matters. Under no circumstances should you even suggest raising taxes.
Whatever it is that Palantir does - I assume some sort of baby-mulching system that converts the souls of the innocent into profit.
Maybe we could... end taxes on tips? Because everyone loves getting asked for a tip for every service in the universe? Yeah, I don't know where this one came from either.
Servants, but subsidized by Silicon Valley venture capital and also the Saudis, until eventually they stop and everyone gets mad that their servants are expensive now.
Let's all pretend to care about US automobile manufacturing for a bit to make ourselves feel better.
Whatever it takes to keep housing prices up.
Whole new sector of the economy entirely devoted to scams. If we get in fast enough, the SEC won't know what hit them.
Establish a student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities.
