Conservative Party supports strengthening trade unions, higher top-bracket income tax rates, and a fair minimum wage! #MAGA

no welfare state and floods of immigrants either, I'm in

Let’s do this

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Well, Social Security was established in 1935, so let’s keep that one.

However, Medicare wasn’t established until the 1960s, so we can do away with that one. The medical-industrial complex makes enough of a killing as it is that it can figure out how to treat our nation’s seniors at its own cost (Sorry, Trump)

In exchange, let’s extend a Social Security-like benefit to all children ages 0-18. This makes sense in a country where Roe v. Wade will be overturned and millions of babies will be saved!

A fund for education, for starting a business, for purchasing their first home, etc. — that can’t be touched by their parents, and that will be accessible when they reach the age of majority. (Can be accessed earlier upon a showing of financial hardship.)

Immigration? We’re a nation of immigrants, but for the sake of argument, let’s set the immigration level at whatever it was in the 1950s. I honestly have no idea how that compares to today.

Let’s throw in price ceilings for goods supplied by essential industries, like the oil industry, that habitually take advantage of global misfortunes like wars and pandemics to line their own pockets. This will help curb inflation.

In addition to strengthening trade unions, making our nation’s richest pay taxes at the rate they used to, and a fair minimum wage, we now have the ingredients for a 1950s-style economy and population boom.

There! We fixed the American economy in a way that will please both parties! 🇺🇸

Nah let's get rid of it. FDR sucks. If you disagree you're an idiot, he destroyed food in the depression when people were starving he doesn't understand economics.

ok

not a terrible idea

we're not a nation of immigrants. Pioneers are different from immigrants. Go check the definitions if you disagree.

Government manhandling the economy doesn't end well. Also that's not what inflation is. The only thing that determines inflation is how much currency is printed.

The constraints of my modest proposal were to turn the clock on the American economy back to the 1950s (but no earlier), and also propose something that had at least a snowball’s chance in hell of actually passing. If I had my ideal world, I wouldn’t have necessarily made all the same choices.

As it was established in the ‘30s, and so would have been around in the ‘50s, I kept Social Security. Eliminating Social Security would never, ever pass Congress, especially when we’re already doing away with Medicare — good luck explaining that to the tens of millions of American voters over the age of 50. I’m not the world’s biggest fan of SS, but I do think it’s better designed than Medicare.

If we’re really dead-set on axing SS, then the only thing that’s remotely realistic is that it gets phased out over a long period of time, a couple decades at least.

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people died younger back then too, so it wasn't exactly the same

also true, more reason to get started now!

Just like a liberal to assume that printing money, raising taxes and spending other people's money will solve all their problems.
You know: it's never worked before, so THIS will be the time.This will be the time it works...