Economic-solution checklist

Heavily borrowed from the original spam-solution checklist, here's my economy-solution checklist. No more do you have to craft an original rebuttal detailing why some online commenter's proposed economic “solution” won't work. Now, just mark an X for each statement that applies. Save time for something that matters.

Your post advocates a

( ) legislative ( ) private-sector ( ) psychological ( ) vengeful

approach to fixing the economy. Your idea will not work. Here is why it
won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular
idea.)

( ) Democrats won't allow it to happen
( ) Republicans won't allow it to happen
( ) At some point the debt must actually be paid back
( ) Infrastructure requires continual upkeep
( ) The regulations are what are plugging up the tax loopholes
( ) That much bureaucracy cannot be eliminated all at once without
    creating havoc
( ) The "solution" will be worse than the problem we're currently facing
( ) The gap between rich and poor will be widened
( ) The solution will not scale
( ) The solution doesn't do enough
( ) Other countries won't put up with it
( ) It will make our country uncompetitive
( ) Elected leaders will eventually just change the benchmark metrics
( ) Elected leaders will eventually just declare a perpetual state of
    emergency to get around the restriction
( ) Exponential growth will make the solution untenable within a mere
    decade or so
( ) We'll just end up with new rich people who are even worse than the
    current ones

Specifically, your plan fails to account for the following:

( ) The Constitution expressly prohibits it
( ) Unpopularity of raising taxes
( ) Specifics of which taxes are to be increased/created
( ) Unpopularity of reducing benefits
( ) Specifics of which government programs are to be cut
( ) Climate change / environmental concerns
( ) Peak oil / resource-availability concerns
( ) Deadbeats / tax cheaters
( ) Most people do not favor anarchy
( ) The black market
( ) Manufacturing jobs no longer pay what they once did
( ) The laws of thermodynamics
( ) The trade deficit
( ) Special / vested interests
( ) Transition costs
( ) Communism has a poor track record
( ) Free markets have a poor track record

And the following philosophical objections may also apply:

( ) Ideas similar to yours have been proposed before but have not worked
( ) What worked in the past is not guaranteed to work in the future
( ) What works for anyone does not always work for everyone
( ) The situation is more complex than your simple solution implies
( ) Stimulus money must be targeted at value-adding projects, not
    people who don't create anything of worth
( ) Overspending got us into this mess and will not get us out of it
( ) Whatever makes _your_ personal circumstances better doesn't
    necessarily make the economy better
( ) Your idea is popular ideology and has already been proposed a
    million times before so please shut up already
( ) It's unfair to future generations
( ) Eliminating safety nets causes real pain for individuals and
    families
( ) Those regulations are preventing a lot of bad things from happening
( ) Your idea exemplifies the broken window fallacy
( ) Your idea exemplifies some other fallacy: __________________________
( ) Our interest-bearing markets require continual growth
( ) It's unclear that immigration has anything to do with the problem
( ) Implementing your idea will make the next recession even worse
( ) It's counterproductive to frame the problem as a morality play
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) It creates a dangerous precedent
( ) Do you not realize that, globally speaking, you _are_ a rich person?
( ) You've cherry-picked your facts and are ignoring valid
    counter-evidence

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

( ) Well intentioned but try again
( ) Please go bone up on your basic math, logic, and/or economic
    principles
( ) Your "solution" is obviously a thinly veiled attempt at lining your
    own pockets, jerk