I spent a whole day thinking about this, and that's more than I can say for many stimulus plans I have read.
I was thinking, the perfect stimulus needs to be something that makes it important to get wealthy people, who have a ton of money, to spend it on goods and services produced by the middle and lower classes. They need to do so immediately, and they need to do so in large numbers. Further, it shouldn't cost the government a lot of money to get the rich people to spend their money. If the government just gives rich people a check for a thousand dollars, economists argue that only like 75 cents of that will actually be spent boosting the economy. Plus, liberals would argue that the rich people already have way more money than they need.
So here's the TAE Omnibus Economic Stimulus Package (TAEOESP):
Whenever you see a Mercedes, Lexus, Corvette, Porsche, Ferrari, Lotus, or any other vehicle you are fairly sure cost more than $50,000 you should pick up a brick and smash that vehicles windshield in.
Obviously, these people in their fancy car can afford to buy a new windshield! And they'll have to, no one can reasonably drive a car that has a brick stuck through the windshield, or no windshield at all. Most windshield installers are in the lower two income brackets, so all that windshield replacing will save jobs (or create more). The factories that produce windshields will be maxed out, and will need to hire more factory workers! The car dealerships will be maxed out trying to get all the windshields installed! The rich people will have contributed to the economy! The income stream to U.S. automakers might save that industry!
I see absolutely no reason why this wouldn't get the economy going, it is, in my humble opinion, foolproof.
Oh, and if all these wealthy people will try to get their insurance company to pay for the windshield replacement, then obviously we will need to preemptively nationalize auto insurance companies (to be reprivatized later, of course).
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Mittwoch, 11. März 2009
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