Downsize Washington #8

A way to instantly raise $10.6 Trillion to pay off a third of the national debt

Confiscate and sell off all stock of the Top 10 U.S. corporations (expropriate all shareholders) of Apple ($2.6 Trillion), Microsoft ($2.0T), Alphabet ($1.4T), Amazon ($1.3T), Tesla ($870B), Berkshire Hathaway ($635B), United Health Group ($489B), Johnson & Johnson ($427B),  Meta ($422B), and Visa ($417B), and you would raise around $10.6 Trillion, enough to pay off a third of the national debt.

To the extent that shareholders in these companies are foreigners, even better. America First.

Of course, no MacBook Pro’s or iPhones, no Microsoft Office, no Google Search, no Amazon Prime, no Tesla electric cars, no Facebook. But your Visa credit card debt would be canceled.

Don’t let Nancy Pelosi know. She and her husband would “short” all the stocks and make a mint.

There would be thousands instantly unemployed, solving the Federal Reserve’s inflation challenge.

And no more concern about the stranglehold on information Big Tech monopolies now enjoy. Big Tech would be canceled. For a good cause.