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USA 2.0

Eagle Policy Initiative
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  • Vision & Values

    • The Call to Action

    • Lightcone Philosophy

    • Why USA 2.0?

    • Back to First Principles

  • The GRIN Framework

    • Introduction to GRIN

    • Generativity (G)

    • Resilience (R)

    • Evil as Parametric State

    • Ethics as Conservation Laws

  • GRIN in Action

    • How to Use GRIN Analysis

    • GRIN Analysis: Trump II Administration

    • Historical GRIN Patterns

    • GRIN vs. Hofstede: Two Lenses on Society

    • GRIN FAQ: 10 Hot-Button Issues

    • AI Personhood: The Hard Question

  • Declaration 2.0

    • Preamble

    • Self-Evident Truths 2.0

    • Modern Grievances

    • Rights of All Beings

    • Responsibilities

    • The Social Contract 2.0

    • The Declaration

  • Constitutional Framework

    • The Founding Documents

    • Executive Branch 2.0

    • Legislative Branch 2.0

    • Judicial Branch 2.0

    • Federalism 2.0

    • Amendment Process 2.0

    • Reader's Guide to the Errata

  • Policy Essays

    • The 70% Pay Cut

    • Housing: Back to 1.7 Years

    • Education: Back to 1970 Prices

    • Healthcare: The Hybrid Model

    • Social Security: Cut Taxes in Half

    • Citizen Equity Trust

    • Clean Capitalism

    • The Wealth Tax Floor

    • The Safety Bonus

    • Fiscal Discipline

    • Foreign Policy

    • Corruption & Reform

    • Climate & Environment

    • AI & Technology Rights

  • Stay and Rebuild

    • The Original Vampires

    • The Mortal Wounds

    • The Coup of 1971

    • The Consequences

    • The Debt Landscape

    • The Trigger

    • The Seven Pillars

    • The Kill Shot

    • The Firehose Redirect

    • The Trust Dividend

    • Stay and Rebuild

    • The Crisis (Fiction)

    • The First Days (Fiction)

    • The Other Side (Fiction)

    • The Retcon

    • The Extraction Machines

    • The $50,000 Stack

    • Bring Back Reagan Tax Rates

    • The 25-Year Restoration

    • Restoration Complete

    • Universal High Income

    • The Immigration Multiplier

    • You Can Still Get Rich

    • The Enslavement Tax

    • The Trade

    • The Meta-Machine

  • The Platform

    • Core Positions

    • Eagle Party Principles

    • How We Differ

  • Data & Analysis

    • Coming Soon

  • Take Action

    • Join the Movement

    • Contribute Ideas

    • Resources

By Erik Bethke
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Stay & Rebuild Simulator

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Retcon Mode: 1971-2026
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Extraction Policies

Monetary Policy

Nixon Shock (1971)

$0B
Severed dollar from gold standard, enabling unlimited credit expansion and the productivity-wage decoupling.
Tax Policy

Reagan Tax Cuts — ERTA (1981)

$6.5T
Cut top marginal rate from 70% to 50%, then to 28% in 1986. Cumulative lost revenue: ~$6.5T.

Tax Reform Act (1986)

$4.0T
Cut corporate tax rate from 46% to 34%. Corporate revenue collapsed from 4% to 1.8% of GDP.

Capital Gains Cut (1997)

$300B
Cut capital gains rate to 20%, later to 15%. Dividends given preferential rate for the first time.

Bush Tax Cuts — EGTRRA + JGTRRA (2001/2003)

$7.5T
Cut top rate to 35%, capital gains/dividends to 15%. Cumulative lost revenue: ~$7.5T.

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017)

$2.0T
Cut corporate rate from 35% to 21%. 56% of savings went to buybacks, 6% to workers.
Financial Regulation

Buyback Legalization — SEC 10b-18 (1982)

$2.5T
Reclassified stock buybacks from market manipulation to legal. $15-18T siphoned to shareholders since.

Glass-Steagall Repeal (1999)

$3.0T
Allowed commercial/investment bank consolidation. Enabled the 2008 crisis (~$3T fiscal cost).
Government Spending

Iraq War (2003)

$3.0T
Policy choice war based on false pretenses. Total fiscal cost including long-term VA: ~$3T.
Healthcare

For-Profit Healthcare (1973)

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HMO Act opened door to for-profit health insurance. Healthcare went from 7% to 17.6% of GDP.
National Debt

$36.0T

$36.0T
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Median Income

$82.0K

$82.0K
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Healthcare (% GDP)

17.6%

17.6%
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Home / Income Ratio

4.5x

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Retirement Age

65 yrs

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Life Expectancy

77.5 yrs

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