ow. But it doesn't sound like a real plan. So I'm not going to say oh he's got the good plan. I don't think he's got a plan.

But here's my way I would approach it. I would approach health care the way I would approach a number of other topics like transportation for example, insurance. If you were to design a city from scratch with the understanding that only the federal government would have any regulatory or law authority over it, this would be similar to Trump's idea of using federal land to build some cities. If you built a city from scratch one of the things you could do is you could design away the cost of child care.

Now I'm going to give you the bad version of how to do that just so you could kind of understand it conceptually but don't argue too much about the details. I'm just trying to sell you on the idea that you could design away a lot of expense, right? So suppose you had a new community and a facility that is owned by the public in which you could drop off your kid or your pet. You could drop your dog off and there would be somebody there to watch it but they'd be mostly volunteers. So if you're lonely and retired or unemployed at the moment or you're single and it's your day off and you just want to be around people in a productive way you could go there and you could help out or you could just work out on some gym equipment that's there. But maybe they want to keep the males away from the kids but you'd have video everywhere. There would be no dark corners, no closets that anybody could go into no matter what. So that if anybody tried anything that was inappropriate with a child it would be like any public space. If you saw somebody doing something inappropriate with a child in let's say a restaurant you would immediately intervene so it doesn't happen there.

So if you create a situation where there are a few paid employees and somebody at the door to make sure that nobody gets in unless they're vetted somehow, you could create a situation where there's just a natural collection of people who are meeting each other, sometimes bonding even, and they could create a social life. They could get some oxytocin. They'd have purpose. They'd have a place to go. They'd have a schedule. Things that people are really going to need especially as the robots start taking our productive work.

So you may say to yourself but Scott I have this or that complaint about that situation to which I say don't worry about the details. The only point is we're not organized in a way that we could lower that cost but we could. It seems very doable.

Now let's take rent. How can you lower the cost of rent? Well one way would be there are a lot of seniors who have extra rooms, empty nests, spouses died, and there should be far more of an effort to get them a college-age roommate who can't pay for rent but they might be able to help out with some chores. And if you fall down and die they'll call the 911. So there's just a whole bunch of ways you could organize that would take away expenses.

What about the expense of transportation? Well if you design your city so that you get the self-driving taxis if you need them but mostly you can walk everywhere you want. If you had bicycle paths from every house to every school you could completely eliminate driving kids to school and buses. They could just take their electric skateboard or bicycle and just park it at the school and come back, right? So you can think of a hundred different ways that you could just drive the cost of living down to practically nothing and your quality of living would be through the roof.

I always use my college experience as my example. My college experience was on paper the worst living condition. I was in this tiny little room with a roommate for the first couple years and had to share a bathroom and there's no kitchen there. You got to walk through the snow to get food. On paper it's the worst place. But because it was designed to give me everything I needed and it surrounded me with people I wanted to associate with, it was the best experience I've ever had. There's nothing in my life that will ever come close to that. But I think we could do that for adults. I think you create a situation where you just met a bunch of awesome people without any effort at all because they were just there and you were doing something in common.

So I think there's nobody's got a good plan for child care.

Let's talk about the Trump economic plan. I asked Grok to summarize it so it may have missed a few things but he wants to reduce the corporate tax rate from 21 to 15%. Harris wants to raise it. But Trump also wants to put a tariff on a lot of stuff coming into the country. Now how many of you think you understand tariffs? How many of you think an economist can tell you if a tariff is a good idea or a bad idea? How many of you think that it sort of depends? You could see it could be a good idea in some cases, bad in others, but that we could do the math and we could know that. How many think you can know it?

Well here's what you need to know. There are two reasons for a tariff. The good reason for a tariff is that there's some country that's trying to destroy an ent