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You have made a good start. But you forget a few important things. Remember, the world doesn’t just hate us for our imperialism. It also hates us because we don’t understand Marx.

We need to impose a 5-10% tax on all industry and all carbon based consumption in order to pay back our inordinate consumption of the world’s resources.

We also need to reapportion part of the country to the Indians, along with annuities for them to live in perpetuity.

Likewise, we should consider a total redistribution of income and social nets to finally eradicate the poor. Continuing education and work incentives aren’t necessary; we’ve already learned from Europe that the enlightened thing to do is just pay them enough to stay home where they can self-actualize. This may require a tax increase on the rich or perhaps just an increase on corporations. One idea might be to expand corporate taxes on commodity companies we view as environmentally dirty, like we do with cigarettes. We want to discourage them anyway, and they’re politically fair game. It’s a regressive tax, but our social programs will counteract it.

Free childcare is also becoming a concern, what with so many mothers living on the poverty line. We could just require all corporations to provide it, but what would we do with all the mothers who don’t work? It’s probably better just to impose taxes and expand the government educational system.

If we keep our fingers crossed, affirmative action should eventually work for blacks and other minorities, although we may need to beef them up a bit.

This should give us a good start at communal ownership through governmental taxation, while requiring capital to pay its fair share for the world, an area where capitalism absolutely comes up short. While we’ve learned that communism is difficult to manage, Europe has shown us that governmental socialism is an effective means of controlling market based externalities such as poor workers and pollution that really are out of control.