I Have An Amazing Idea! March 19, 2025March 18, 2025 Let the Trump tax cuts expire on schedule (but only on income above $400,000) and use that revenue to restore all the cuts DOGE has made — except those Congress agrees were wasteful, fraudulent, or abusive. Also: > Raise the estate-tax rates above $100 million / $1 billion / $10 billion and tighten the loopholes. Because once you’re dead, how painful will it really be for you, the deceased, to toss a bigger chunk of your fortune back into the pot as thanks to the country that helped you make it in the first place? I mean: You’re dead! Stop complaining!* > Adequately fund the IRS so the revenue owed by the wealthy and large corporations is, in fact, collected. > Make the Social Security tweaks I’ve been suggesting for decades. By the time they kicked in, we might actually not need them to kick in . . . although they would be relatively painless if they did. Together, those four simple changes would buoy the bond market — i.e., lower interest rates — which would be good for almost everybody and lower the deficit. *If you hate the U.S. government so much that you don’t want it to have a nickel of your vast fortune — swell. Just build a new science lab bearing your name or a new opera house or endow an oceanographic institute or make tuition free at your favorite medical school. That would lower your estate tax to zero.