How to Solve the Immigration Crisis Fast, Easy, and Cheap!
No, I’m not kidding. I can solve the immigration and refugee crises without more wars, without rounding people up like animals, and while boosting the GDP. It’s not hard. All you have to do is stop thinking inside the same old status quo.
Here’s the plan:
#1: The Fed provides loans to build new cities. Seeing that they were recently spending $85 billion per month buying up mortgage debt and Treasuries, we’ll take that as a cap. We’ll buy up farmland (or forest or desert) and start installing utilities. There’s such an incredible amount of open land that we’ll have thousands of spots to choose from.
#2: The federal and state governments forbear all income taxes from anyone who opens a business in the new cities for as long as they operate those businesses. Think they’ll come?
#3: The federal and state governments forbears all taxes from undocumented immigrants (and their families) who choose to reside in the new cities. They also forebear all enforcement of immigration laws upon them. Wanna bet they’ll show up?
#4: The federal and state governments forbear all taxes, regulations, fines, bases, offices, employees, services, and impositions for 100 years in the new cities. “Outside the status quo,” remember?
#5: The federal and state governments guarantee that entry and exit to/from these cities will be unimpeded.
#6: Federal and state governments agree that they will provide no welfare, disability, or any other handout programs in the new cities for 100 years. We don’t want a dependent class.
Oh, and one more thing:
#7: No person or corporation who has done business with any federal or state government over the past 10 years shall be considered for any such loans; nor shall anyone with more than incidental political involvement. A panel of radical anarcho-capitalists shall decide.
There are a few fine points that could be added, but these seven major points just about do it. The plan falls short of philosophical perfection (witness the Federal Reserve being named in it), but it had to be something that would work tomorrow morning, and this would.
And Then…
And then we’ll have an excellent free-for-all. These cities would become the places to be. Businesses would start looking for facilities the next morning. Hundreds of them, maybe thousands. Immigrants would flock to the cities.
Libertarian and entrepreneurial types, disgusted by the status quo, would load up and drive to the new cities just to get away from regulations. Nonconformists of a dozen descriptions would start buying property, even without tax breaks.
These cities would, within only a few years, become the coolest places on the planet – by far.
But…
That’s right, there won’t be any government-provided policemen or courts. And yes, I know how many people have been trained to freak out about that: “It will be murder, death, and mayhem!”
I’ll be taking bets on that one.
The people who come to these cities would be coming to escape from their chains and to be productive. Those are precisely the kinds of people who clean up a town. And with no taxes to pay for 100 years, they’ll have plenty of extra money to spend on whatever security services (or whatever else) they need.
And the Results…
These would be the results:
- The plan will cost the various governments nothing at all. (I’m presuming here that the loans would be repaid… which should be almost a cinch.)
- The skittish citizens who can’t sleep at night because of immigration could all relax; all of the scary people would be in new cities and wouldn’t be terrorizing them anymore.
- This would definitely juice the GDP.
- 10 cities of a million people each would be easy to build. Just ask the Chinese.
- Most of the usual troublemakers would separate from the status quo, and stop bothering them.
- Fun, innovation, and progress.
So, why not?
And this same model might do nicely in Europe. They have plenty of empty land too.
Paul Rosenberg
[Editor’s Note: Paul Rosenberg is the outside-the-Matrix author of FreemansPerspective.com, a site dedicated to economic freedom, personal independence and privacy. He is also the author of The Great Calendar, a report that breaks down our complex world into an easy-to-understand model. Click here to get your free copy.]
Paul rosenberg, you’re an idiot. We don’t want more immigrants. We don’t give a rats ass about juicing GDP. Great idea. Let’s build mote niggertowns!!! Free money from the fed!!! Crawl back in your hole, douchebag.
Stupid
Good plan. Now do it in anarctica where its more of a realistic idea.
This guy is fucked up.
I’ve got a fine point for his plan:
No taxes paid equals no right to vote.
And a question:
How the hell do you become American by segregating immigrants from America?
We should close the borders post haste until we figure out how to handle the illegals we have now.
Here’s a story that will make you puke. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/14/federal-data-u-s-annually-admits-quarter-of-a-million-muslim-migrants/ It seems that the goal is to make illegal beaners the face of “immigration” while your govt quietly fills the country with muslim scum.
This sounds like some far-right “taxes are evil” bullshit.
Here’s what will work:
Instead of crushing small biz to death with regulations designed by the big boys to do just that, how ’bout we eliminate most of the red tape for business grossing less than $2 mil annually, and graduate that up to $100 mil. Just get rid of the red tape, period for these businesses, including obamacare and even most of the workers comp burden (waayyy too many people on WC right about now).
Let’s bust up all the monopoly companies thus creating more competition and a better deal for consumers. It happened in Knoxville where the city built out a fiber system similar to FIOS and wow did the private companies bitch about losing their monopoly! Result: Choice & lower cost for consumers.
Finally, give real loans to small biz (non-SBA for Gods’ sake) to lend them keys to the infrastructure to get things started. I’ll betcha this country would take off like a bitch!
Solve unemployment and GDP at the same time.
I vote for westcoast.
MORON
You guys, I believe, totally miss the genius of his plan and the history of Western civilization. This is the history of the American risk taker that, as a FOREIGNER, set upon the west and created this great land. Johnny Law, and his bureaucrats, sycophants and cronies, wasn’t present when the West was mapped and first developed. Such good little statists, instead of independent entities, we have become.
I would cash out all I had to be a founder and developer, these cities would be the fastest growing profit centers anywhere.
And @IS, if I lived inside the city with none of the legacy costs, and none of the welfare, and none of the mega-corporation crony capitalism, I would have no need to vote in the rest of the country’s Kabuki theater realm of thinking your vote matters against the legions of parasites. How quaint your belief system would soon be.
Oh well, just like winning the lottery, this plan is, kinda obviously by the reaction here, DOA.
And people wonder “why” I have little hope for any positive regeneration after our ultimate fall. I don’t.
Thank you, TE.
The rest of you, I don’t get. You come here everyday because, I assume, you recognize just how fucked up an institution the US Government is, and yet you seem to always want to solve everything using it.
“I’ve got a fine point for his plan:
No taxes paid equals no right to vote.”
Fine. I don’t give a shit and neither would anyone else in these cities. How many times must it be proven to you that your vote doesn’t matter for shit.
Westcoaster has a bunch of great plans…if it was 1992 (maybe not even then). The system is so fucked up at this point, that working within it is impossible. Any sensible plan like this would never even get out of committee.
Of course, Rosenberg’s plan would never happen with today’s govt either. But at least it is a new type of thinking rather than get the fucking government to solve the very problems CREATED and continually exacerbated by the fucking government.
How about NATO “peacemaker” forces go to Syria and make peace so the refugees could move back to their country?
TE / DRUD
+100
People just can’t, or won’t, think “outside the box” …. (a term I generally despise, but is appropriate in this case). Almost all alternative ideas are shot down, labeled as dumb, unworkable, ….
The other thing is 99% of people want change without sacrifice. An impossible task. “What? You want to cut MY insert-name-of-benefit-here?? Fuck off!!!”
There is only ONE solution; the current system must crash and burn totally followed by death, mayhem, and revolution …. and maybe, just maybe, the do-over will be better.
Fuckin-A, Stucky.
Also, couldn’t agree more about the phrase “Think outside the box.” I worked hard to avoid it in my diatribe.
That’s me who just waded through here to thumbs down the lunatics. Think outside the box? Liberal sheep