I have a few ideas:
1) quit printing money
2) quit printing money
3) quit printing money
4) drill, baby, drill
5) Fire a crap ton of federal employees, and cut the federal budget, so you can quit printing money. Axe entire departments.
6) Significantly reduce foreign aid, so you can quit printing money
7) Sell some real estate in Utah. Not the best real-estate, but the most boring real estate that could be used for agriculture.
8) Increase the interest rate to curb inflation. Actively manage it. Unemployment will go up as the public sector gets trimmed down.
9) deport a ton of illegals.
10) Invest in more LNG terminals, so we can drill even more
11) Build a couple of nukes in the desert somewhere. Give a huge tax break on profits for the first 20 years.
12) Use the bully pulpit to bring jobs back to the US. It worked the first time, do it again.
13) Renegotiate CHIPS, and expand the silicon manufacturing in the US even more. Give tax breaks to US investors.
14) Demand tariff reciprocity, targeting manufactured goods. For every dollar foreign governments collect on US manufactured goods, we will demand $1 of tariffs from that country's manufactured goods. Important that you focus on manufacturing. It's not about expanding individual spending power, it is about expanding manufacturing employment. I know what you read in your macro books in college, and they completely gloss over frictional unemployment, like it is no big deal. It is a huge deal.
15) Remove weed from schedule I. Establish a federal excise tax on weed and all forms of THC and THC analogs. Anything that will make you fail a piss test. Make the excise tax hefty, don't be shy here. Make it illegal to transport without the tax. Limit concentrations of THC in weed related products. Regulate it not like tobacco, but like distilled ethanol. You can grow your own, and consume it where it was grown, but the tax man is going to get his once it leaves its place of origin.
16) Server farm energy consumption excise tax. Call this a carbon tax on the cost of all the A/C required to run these server farms, but it is absolutely a tax on silicon valley, AI, and crypto farmers. Crypto prices will climb.
17) War on regulations. Provide a lot more support to the SBA to encourage entrepreneurs. Feed the cash through the states. By year 2, start making the support conditional on dropping local licensing regulations. Provide federal grants to programs designed to eliminate local regulations on small businesses. Not sure how to execute this yet, but that is the idea.
18) Tax deduction every year for five years for each dollar of direct DEI costs eliminated by corporations. 5x penalty for any company that takes advantage of the tax deduction and starts doing DEI under a different name. Sick those 87,000 IRS agents on looking at those DEI deductions.
19) Expand federally guaranteed education loans to include any institutions that train skilled tradesman on high-demand jobs. Electricians, plumbers, welders, etc. Make this type of education basically free until you graduate, when you then have to pay it back, but at a low interest rate.
20) Eliminate all federal grants for any humanities degree.
21) Increase the University Endowments tax to equal capital gains tax. This would increase those taxes from 1.4% to 20%. Phase it in over 4 years.
22) Move a significant amount of the federal beaurocracy out of D.C. into cheaper places to live. Sell a lot of federal buildings in DC.
23) Sue the over loving crap out of the pharma industry for lying. Find a way to invalidate all of the waivers (if at all legally possible) due to fraud. Don't break the law here, but take very aggressive legal stances, make the litigations very public, and accept sizable settlements.
24) Reduce DHS by about 75%. Focus its mission on one thing and one thing only: preventing terrorism. Give 20% of the savings from the reduction of DHS to state and local police forces. Give them more authority to detain and deport illegals.
25) Build the F'ing wall.
26) Eliminate all federal subsidies on unbuilt wind farms.
27) Enact a federal tax on all unbuilt wind farms relative to the weight of the unrecycled fiber glass or carbon fiber that is going to have to be landfilled.
28) Repurpose all Know Your Customer regulations to capture illegal aliens that are interacting with the financial sector. Increase penalties for financial institutions interacting with the financial sector. Eliminate all of the regulations meant to monitor domestic money transfers, and focus them on international transfers, specifically from criminals and illegal aliens.
29) Tax all windfarms for the environmental damage they cause to our wildlife. Windfarms have to pay for all of the birds that they kill at the statutory rate set by local game laws and the Migratory Bird Protection Act.
