When i got halfway through this i literally thought it was satirical.

There is a huge hole in this idea and it isn’t how it makes the poor starve to death.

Its the crass assumption that the government will know what to do with those funds, and very able to execute it. ESPECIALLY when you are trying to appeal to the American elite.

The government will take that new found money and spend it on another war, or free transgender surgeries for everyone.

Working for making the world a nicer place for the elite seems like a great way to excite people to get the pitchforks. I mean making it virtually impossible for mary to fly or drive to see her mother in Toledo? Are you crazy?

Instead, and i really thought you were going this way, i propose the exact opposite.

No subsidies. No facilitation.

Oil producers have to fight and pay for their own wars. Oil wholesalers have to pay for their own pipelines and pay each property owner it crosses. They have to pay first their own exploration. They have to pay for their own refineries. Heck if they want people to drive their cars, they better pay for roads too.

The sports elite have to pay for their own stadiums.

Farmers have to produce food that the market wants in the way it wants it.

This way people can feel the true cost of things without politicians telling them right from wrong through a byzantine set of codes that subsidize and tax according to the whims of a few.

The environmental costs of things will be felt and the cost if the environmentally expensive things (like oil) will be felt throughout.