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> 1. Remove state income tax outside of cities >100k people
> 3. Waive property taxes for farms & factories in towns <25k people
Given how the famous "Welcome to Las Vegas" — along with all the other things people think of when they imagine Las Vegas — isn't in the city of Las Vegas but rather in the unincorporated town of Paradise, Nevada, I think this kind of thing will be immediately gamed.
> 2. Add high import tariffs on all goods
Autarchy is ever tempting, almost everyone who tries it regrets it.
> 5. Stop all forms of immigration for 8 years
Why would those help? Cities can also have factories, why would factory owners move back to rural places given the people already left, and until the factories move why would the people? Why do migrants matter at all for this?
> 4. Move federal spending from military to infrastructure such as rail, roads & internet.
I like rail and internet, and I (begrudgingly) get roads. I can even see the value of having the engineering corp doing some of their exercises in the form of making infrastructure for civilian use.
Don't get how this will help "rural" (which seems like the wrong term for 25/100k population settlements) America.
I was born and raised in a city so I like cities. I understand different people love different things, but I doubt things can be fixed unless enough people want and are willing to put the effort to do it.
My guess is that there will be opposition to many points in your proposal by lots of people (besides politicians and corporations). It's not that people want country side to be "worse" it's just that they like where they are to be "nice".
How would this help rural America? Migrants are absolutely necessary in every form of agriculture save for the microplot artisinal stuff urbanites are known for.
You can easily pay a US citizen $10/hr. They’d prefer $5/hr.
The cost of the overall product is low margin, but not so low margin they can’t afford the extra few dollars per hour a head.
I say that as someone who is vary familiar with the practice and have watched it make people very rich.
Every wealthy person (and less wealthy people including myself) would immediately set up (and leave empty to rot) a new primary residence for tax purposes. The cost of 1/4 acre in the middle of nowhere is less than a single year of income tax.
> 2. Add high import tariffs on all goods
...spiking prices for everyone due to reduced supply, inevitable retaliatory tariffs, and general market inefficiencies.
> 3. Waive property taxes for farms & factories in towns <25k people
...is this on top of the substantial tax subsidies farms and factories already receive?
> 4. Move federal spending from military to infrastructure such as rail, roads & internet.
I can get behind this one.
> 5. Stop all forms of immigration for 8 years
Including the currently illegal forms of immigration that currently support the vast majority of our agricultural output? I was talking to a farm owner in North Carolina a couple months ago and he was complaining how hard it has become to get seasonal labor because nobody wants to work this type of job. You can raise pay rates, but it'll still be tough. This wouldn't bump rural areas, it would kill whatever remaining businesses are left.
The military is already subsidizing rural areas. Over the past few decades, pretty much all major defense manufacturing got moved from upscale locations like Long Island and parts to California, to bumfuck nowhere parts of the country so that the MIC can save on taxes and labor.
Anyway the real problem now is we are in a death spiral that cannot be fixed. Our economy is moving towards serfdom. Cut property taxes and even more landlords will just pay up rural housing. They now will keep jacking rents and manufacturing jobs in rural areas will be unable to keep up with wage increases.
The real solution in my opinion is mass building of even more homes in suburban ban and denser housing. Flood the country with inventory to drop home prices. Then people in rural areas gain an avenue to escape because often they simply can't afford it currently.