the german government prints 1bn euros and hands it out to the people
the people will spend 300m of it to buy furniture, cars, smartphones
that money goes to companies abroad, to billionaires abroad, and can’t be “taxed back”
The solution is:
literally create import tariffs that make importing goods from other countries more expensive, so people are incentivized to spend money on domestically produced goods
now the money flows back to domestic billionaires,
It’s unaffordable to greedy corporations and billionaires who would not afford the working to have a single dime in their pocket if they had it their way.
If only “tax” meant “tap” as in “tap a sugar maple for its sweet sweet amber sap” and the freshly gutted 1% could also be used as fertilizer afterward.
Win/win! Poverty and hunger in one fell slash? I’m in.
What’s “unaffordable” here?
The worry is:
The solution is:
It’s unaffordable to greedy corporations and billionaires who would not afford the working to have a single dime in their pocket if they had it their way.
If only “tax” meant “tap” as in “tap a sugar maple for its sweet sweet amber sap” and the freshly gutted 1% could also be used as fertilizer afterward.
Win/win! Poverty and hunger in one fell slash? I’m in.