• You're the President of the USA and you want to fix the economy at whatever means necessary, what do
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Get rid of the income tax and replace it with nothing. Legalize drugs. It's only illegal to have or sell drugs if you don't have a taxable license. Close down all foreign military operations and bases. Put an end to the federal reserve. All they do is electronically generate money that weakens the purchasing power of the dollar. Only give away free money to college students, not loan. They don't need a debt burden and the higher amount of taxes they'll pay with their fancy career salary will make up for the lost money.
Fix economy? I will turn USA into communism.
Stop caring about other third world countries, and focus on repairing our own country. Pull our grasp out of every country. We don't need soldiers everywhere. Pull our troops out finally, start drilling for oil in Alaska. Make getting disability checks and welfare much more difficult, you're not going to get paid for having a "learning disability" when you're really just lazy. No universal healthcare plan, no more bailouts, no million dollar vacations for me and my family. Cut off all funding to illegal immigrants. Reduce the salaries of senators and any other government official, including myself. I would be hated, but I would get the job done.
Get rid of fractional reserve banking and the federal reserve. End the war on drugs, legalize, tax. Release prisoners who were put in jail purely on drug-based charges. Reduce all discretionary funds by large amounts. Slash military by large amounts.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;32045104]Firstly the separate branches of government would be merged into one, and the states would have all state powers stripped and the federal government given good power. Next taxes would be raised on various social classes to reach an optimum balance. The largest private companies would be brought under control of the state and stock markets would be abolished. Next the country would withdraw from all wars it is engaged in. The military funding would be slashed to low levels and a small professional force of troops would be kept around at all times along with a larger conscript one for use in case of defensive wars. The country would essentially become anti-military and use it only to protect itself. (Defensive wars in themselves are the best ones for the nation involved as it holds many advantages whilst doing so.) All subsidies would be removed on goods, and the unemployed would be brought into large government schemes along with many prisoners (Mostly those imprisoned under petty crimes.) and a massive infrastructure reorganisation would begin. Railways, highways, roads and the such would be reorganised and rebuilt for optimum use. Nuclear power plants would be set up along with hydroelectric dams to start being used as a reliable and cheap source of power. Taxes would be placed on religious organisations, marriage would be made legal for all homosexuals. The safer drugs (Cannabis for example) would be legalised. (Taxing them would be of almost no benefit.) Homosexuals, bisexuals, trannsexuals, those of all nationalities would be treated equally and all limits on immigration. (Minus essentials such as contagious disease) The police would be given infinite power to crush organised crime. A small army would go into each city and town and find every last member of the mafia/gang/etc and they would be tortured to reveal secrets about the rest of their gang. Doing such over a period of time will result in the elimination of organised crime. (An example being where Mussolini deployed such a tactic in Italy and almost eradicated the mafia.) With industry and infrastructure reorganised the nation would be set towards massive production of goods, with the only environmental concerns being that which are of benefit to humans. Animal rights groups and environmentalist ones that may oppose industrialisation or unethical treatment of animals will be ignored. If they aggress then they will be arrested for crimes against human improvement. Once sufficiently powerful the government will place in a full blown socialist healthcare system. The goal is to continually improve. Money will be poured into education, the nation will slowly change its ideals to always strive for innovations and to make it a better place. However to prevent partisan politics the idea of a political party will be removed entirely and government officials may be still voted in, however the catch is that all the candidates can only be put forward based upon merit, and given media coverage (Also state controlled) dependent upon their merit. Of course there will be massive opposition from various groups, of which the army and police should deal with efficiently, for anarchists and reactionaries seek to undermine the human race as a whole for their own purposes and needs and this is unacceptable.[/QUOTE] A socialist police state is [b][i]exactly[/i][/b] what we need. [editline]1st September 2011[/editline] well, I know what my dad would do. want a gun? He would legalize EVERY gun imaginable. if you got the dough, you got the gun. in fact, the government would [i]give[/i] every citizen a sidearm of their own. Ammunition is free. then he would radically strip down the federal government's power, letting local governments have control of their own laws. then he would veto EVERYTHING. he would give each congresman three 'yes' votes upon coming to office. they have only three things to vote 'yes' on, everything else must be rejected.
Declare war on every country (even the USA), take over the world by nukes, its the only way to have peace.
Sell the sick as low grade animal feed. Imprison more people, use them as cheap labour so we can compete with China. ECONOMY FIXED. Oh wait they already do the second thing. :v:
wage more war on countries with brown people
Cancel the war in the middle east
Force the hipotecary business to link directly to the government and slowly pay them and reduce them. Monitor every single bank agency activity, or maybe partially shut down bank activity for a few weeks. Prohibit the use of cheap tactics to get money. Lower taxes by a single bit so people can buy houses while they don't fuck up the government business and we don't lose money. Then invoke the Triforce and give everyone $1,000,000,000. Problem. Solved.
Construct more factories so the IC goes up and we can make more consumer goods, thus keeping people happy all the while making every province have 10 Infrastructure so people in North Dakota can get to South Dakota within 30 minutes. Then make a bunch of nuclear reactors and declare war on Canada and Mexico.
Build life-sized statues of myself wearing sunglasses and carrying a bag of money on every street corner.
Put all the smart people into government and CEO postitions and kill off the current politions and CEOs so they may never re-take office.
Communism
[QUOTE=SNAAAAAAAKE;32054133]Stop caring about other third world countries, and focus on repairing our own country. Pull our grasp out of every country. We don't need soldiers everywhere. Pull our troops out finally, start drilling for oil in Alaska. Make getting disability checks and welfare much more difficult, you're not going to get paid for having a "learning disability" when you're really just lazy. No universal healthcare plan, no more bailouts, no million dollar vacations for me and my family. Cut off all funding to illegal immigrants. Reduce the salaries of senators and any other government official, including myself. I would be hated, but I would get the job done.[/QUOTE] You would indeed but hated, but I agree that it would get the job done. The difference between mine and yours is that I am thinking extremely long term.
I'd just nuke the whole place TBH.
Legalize marijuana; tax it. Legalize prostitution; tax it. Heavily tax things like fast food and cigarettes to help the economy and encourage healthier habits.
[QUOTE=Shoupie;32066730]egalize prostitution. help the economy and encourage healthier habits.[/QUOTE] Prostitutes can help your mental health.
The sad thing about all of these "Taxing the Rich" ideas is that rich people have the money to relocate to another country that has incredibly low taxes. Shit sucks man.
Revoke your independance for the laughs. Once more Britain shall rule the world, and we shall have peace.
I would convert it to Communism.
Deregulate.
Legalize weed. Make the rich pay their fair share. Separate Church and State. Stop the benefits to Oil Companies. Make governmental health care.
[QUOTE=rexxar;32066813]Revoke your independance for the laughs. Once more Britain shall rule the world, and we shall have peace.[/QUOTE] Peace is war.
Get rid of the tax code, introducing a flat rate tax, and basically simplify every government agency i can get my hands on
[QUOTE=NanoSquid;32068507]introducing a flat rate tax,[/QUOTE] Wouldn't that make the economy worse? I mean the poor spend a higher percentage of there taxers while even though the rich spend a lot the percentage of there money spend is generally low.
Kill off the top 1% and split up the money with the rest.
[QUOTE=Anonim;32044187]1. Take all the money. 2. Deport every single person within the country to Mexico except myself. 3. I am now the only person in the US, with all the wealth. 4. GDP is now $14.5 trillion per capita. The highest in the world by [i]8 orders of magnitude[/i]. Then I'll consider the economy officially fixed.[/QUOTE] Welp.
Little basic economy 101 for some of you guys with the bad ideas. Why would you raise taxes on big businesses and only lower on smaller businesses? That's the dumbest idea ever, why? You raise their taxes, you lower their profit. What happens when big companies make lower profit, well they fire their workers of course. Thus more unemployment and a worse economy. You should lower big business taxes and smaller businesses. Oh Jose but big companies already have lot's of money. True, but once your lower their taxes they have even more money to spend but this time they would think "Hey since I have even more money to spend lets higher more workers to make even more money!" So then big companies would higher loads more employees and unemployment would drop dramatically. A government planned economy is also absolutely horrible. Sure communism and socialist ideas may sound great but they NEVER work. That doesn't mean I don't want more equality for the people. We do need things like universal health care/ waaay more things to help the common folk (pretty much what Sweden does now but sadly that will mean increased taxes and that makes may lower taxes for big companies idea pretty much flawed.)
Divide the United States into North States of America, South States of America, East States of America, and West States of America. The US no longer has economy problems.
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