Ideas for other "cash for ..." programs

Quote from morganist:

cash for war veterans and pensioners and the homeless.

this would be the most effective they have no money so they would spend it all and it would have the largest increase on demand.
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Cash for the homeless = increase in demand for hard drugs and cheap liquor.
Cash for war veterans = the GI bill and other benes already there
Cash for pensioners = SS benefits and other benes already there

Thank God you're not in charge.
 
Just give every household, illegal alien, prisoner, etc. $10 million each. I mean, why not? Who cares if we get Weimar-style hyperinflation? The printing presses will just work overtime.

Stimulus, bailouts and other give-aways are so easily refuted by a simple reductio ad absurdum. I can't believe how many people think they "work" and don't see how they misallocate resources and play favorites.
 
Quote from Tester:

Or, the government could take 100% of income from every legal citizen and use the money to buy everyone food, clothes and a place to live.

Wow, just think how much that would help grocery stores, department stores and the housing market!
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That's the plan for Obama's second term.
 
Quote from texrex2002:

My votes are for:

- CFGLSP - cash for good looking smart people
- CFBRC - cash for better race cars
- GBFC - gold bullion for cash (I give them cash, they give me gold bullion; this may actually fix some things).
- CFPWAPT (this may be my most shocking one) – cash for people who actually pay taxes.

I also like the taxes proposed above. Anything I don’t do or approve of should be a candidate for taxation. I have a few further suggestions:
- tax for causing me extra, unnecessary work (double taxation for doing this in periods of already high workload).
- tax for calling meetings (we’d only have genuinely value creating meetings).
- tax for being a bitch (this should be structured in a way to not further penalize husbands/boyfriends; maybe they would receive an equal and offsetting tax credit, and should also be in charge of determining the level of “bitch tax.” Non income generating bitches should work off their obligations in in-kind services at the discretion of the husband/boyfriend. Bad attitude, half-heartedness or careless exposure to teeth would be subject to further taxation.) (for some subset of single bitches the aforementioned taxation administration rights might be extended to potential suitors). (Wives & girlfriends could accrue credits for redeeming activities in a tightly capped account for short periods of future involuntary “bitchiness.”)
- tax for changing the tv channel to something really stupid
- tax for preventing/interrupting things I’m interested in doing, especially by forcing me to listen attentively to trivial, boring stuff.
- tax for giving door dings.
- tax for driving like shit while talking on the phone and not realizing you’re holding up other people that actually want to get somewhere.
- tax for fucking up my restaurant order.
- tax for choosing romantic comedy movies (this could be structured as an in-kind services tax as described above. While I realize it already sort of works that way, it would take some of the uncertainty and investment risk out of the matter).
- tax for not returning my calls.
- tax for being flamingly gay while in my presence (no issue with gays, or them being “flaming” when not in my presence).
- tax for moving my threads to chit-chat.
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This is pure genius. I'm applying this at home.
 
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