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Where do the funds come from? Zuckerberg? Bezos? They’re not coming from the NIH.

Do we crowd fund it? Maybe we create a system where everyone gives a percentage of their income. And we scale it progressively so as not to cause undo hardship to low earners.

Eh people won’t go for that. Let’s tax neighboring countries, say 25% of the cost of their traded goods. They won’t retaliate right? Ok go.




Tax ourselves on goods from neighboring countries*


Yeah, it does seem like a tax hike.

It's not like shoe manufacturing is moving to the US. Shoes will just be more expensive.

(Until a deal is negotiated, which is probably what he is after)




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