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I would ask these questions and wonder why people shouldn't consider them.

I have not studied Trump's "proposals" as he seems to be speaking out of his backside.

First, shaping the size of government by limiting replacements in the bureaucracies and reshaping how government pensions are funded. Instead of defined benefit retirement packages, we should have only defined contribution. I have not studied across the board which agencies provide defined contribution instead of defined benefit. However, that liability is huge. Except in terms of the judiciary and military, defined benefit should be eliminated as a form of pension benefit.

Second, I am not in favor of rounding up unlawful and undocumented workers, but I am not in favor of granting easy citizenship for the recent immigrants. The manner in enforcing would be to punish employers severely who hire undocumented workers and to punish unions who accept donations or union dues from undocumented workers. If these groups won't have an incentive to coddle them, then undocumented workers won't come here.

Third, a roll back of the Obama tax hikes is in order if we can find savings through the re-shaping of government and failure to replace retirees. We need to eliminate the AMT.

Fourth, elimination of too big to fail laws need to be rescinded.

Fifth, cutting Medicare is not a solution.

Sixth penalizing imports will negatively affect prices so I cannot accept that solution. There are probably trade treaties to be refined where the burdens can be addressed.

Seventh, we need to continually retrain or upgrade our workforce.

And this part is just a thought experiment as I have not worked it out in any detail. If we limited immigration through lawful means and eliminate the undocumenteds, it will affect pricing in this fashion. Some businesses will have to raise prices and some goods will rise, because we will need to replace those workers with higher priced workers, legal citizens. That is not inherently bad. We can have fuller employment in this means at a higher wage. These will pay higher taxes. The undocumenteds pay lesser taxes and lower rates. The net effect does not seem to be all bad for the economy. However, there may be holes in this thought process.