>There's a few items that could be solved with the market. Like: Remove city's zoning laws with a federal mandate, to encourage the market to build urban housing. You don't need the gov. to do it, just remove the limitations. Disallow internet providers from offering kickbacks to condo/apartment managers to open up the market. We should probably tax semi trucks & cars with snow tires more, because they're the ones that cause 90% of the damage to highways.
I completely agree. Rigorous antitrust enforcement is another major program I would pursue, alongside every measure to reduce and eliminate economic rents.
>It'll all come out eventually. Either we borrow, and tax our future generations, or we tax more businesses now, which would also repress business activity and American competitiveness.
Or we invest in infrastructure and R&D now to make the profit later. You know, like every sane country in history prior to the Reagan Revolution.
>Your Massachusetts background is showing.
No, I wasn't proposing my ideal economic program. That would start with a lot more of Karl Marx and Henry George. I was pointing out the ways in which actually-existing systems which we once actually used actually dealt with unemployment -- real things, not ideals.
My whole point, facepalm, is that we've been so thoroughly indoctrinated with neoliberalism that we've managed to forget how the golden age of Western capitalism (1940s-1970s) actually worked.