I'd like to propose a third policy, the NOPtransferpayment. The way the new policy will work is, a new tax will be implemented for 1000 times the net income of

I'd like to propose a third policy, the NOPtransferpayment. The way the new policy will work is, a new tax will be implemented for 1000 times the net income of every person who earns an income (after all other taxes and transfer payments). A new transfer payment will be implemented for 1000 times the net income of every person who earns an income (after all other taxes and transfer payments). This tax and transfer payment will not count toward calculations used by other programs. A new department will be created and staffed by 0 people, and 0 new forms will be necessary to implement the tax and transfer payment. A policy like this could reasonably be said to cost nothing, produce nothing, and indeed do nothing. If we think that congress generally makes the world a worse place by implementing policies that do things, then it would be an improvement for congress to work on this sort of thing instead. However, its cost-benefit under the proposed model is not $0 or (pay_per_lawmaker * n_lawmakers * nop_debate_time) but $13 quadrillion. The proposed model indicates that this program costs about 180 years of global production at the current rate, or a substantial portion of the value of the entire planet and all humans living on it. If we suppose the planet is worth about $200 quadrillion, we will run out of it about 15 years after implementing this policy.