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> i. Restore corporate tax rates to historically high levels My gut feeling is that this would increase inflation, but I could be wrong. > iv. Gradually curta
by quickthrowman 2y ago
> i. Restore corporate tax rates to historically high levels
My gut feeling is that this would increase inflation, but I could be wrong.
> iv. Gradually curtail subsidies on field corn, currently occupying 5% of America's land (~100 million acres)
I would much rather the US spend $2.2B on corn subsidies so that we have food security in the event of a global catastrophe. I’d prefer eating nothing but corn flour/meal for years than starving to death.
> v. Shrink defense spending by half
As a (biased) US citizen, I would prefer keeping American Hegemony around, and that doesn’t happen without the massive military overspending the US does.
- thfuran 2y ago>I would much rather the US spend $2.2B on corn subsidies so that we have food security in the event of a global catastrophe. I’d prefer eating nothing but corn flour/meal for years than starving to death. Are those really the only two options?
- quickthrowman 2y agoThere are definitely other options, I’m not trying to present a false dilemma. My point is that spending 0.03% of total federal expenditures to guarantee food security is money well spent. Subsidizing other crops would work, it just happens to be easy to industrialize and automate corn farming and there’s plenty of good agricultural land in the US that is suited to grow corn.