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| The Gold Card Program: Capitalism Meets Immigration |
| 2025-03-28 |
| [American Liberty] Suppose the United States could raise trillions of dollars without raising a single tax rate, without printing another dollar of inflationary debt, and without expanding the federal government by an inch. Would we do it? Of course, we should. But this is Washington, where simplicity is suspicious, and ideas that work too well are often met with raised eyebrows rather than applause. Enter the Gold Card program. Conceived by Howard Lutnick and referred to with brash confidence as the "Trump Card," this program would allow vetted, law-abiding foreign nationals to purchase permanent U.S. residency for $5 million. In exchange, they receive the right to reside in America indefinitely, without citizenship, and without being subject to taxation on their global income—only income earned within the United States. The numbers, even with conservative estimates, are staggering: if just one million of the roughly 37 million non-American millionaires worldwide opt in, the program would generate $5 trillion in non-tax revenue. Critics are already clutching their pearls, gasping at what they see as a commodification of American residency. But this misses the forest for the oak-paneled door. The United States, in embracing this program, would not be selling citizenship, votes, or influence—only access to live and spend legally within its borders. And it would do so not through coercion or redistribution, but through the voluntary transactions of the global wealthy, many of whom already maintain homes, assets, and philanthropic footprints within our shores. Some will ask: Isn’t this unfair? Doesn’t it favor the wealthy? To which the answer is: certainly—and for good reason. A conservative approach to policy recognizes that not all inequality is injustice. A millionaire paying $5 million into the U.S. Treasury to receive a green card that excludes them from voting or receiving entitlements is not a corruption of democratic ideals; it is their affirmation. The program does not create freeloaders but funders—individuals who, by design, give more to America than they take. Unlike many forms of immigration that strain welfare systems, the Gold Card poses no such burden. In fact, it reverses the paradigm entirely. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |