8 Policies PBD Would Implement as President

Patrick Bet-David gives his 8-step policy plan he would implement if he became President of the United States, including raising the retirement age, cutting welfare, and closing the border. While these policies may not be popular among some, they are his, and he isn’t afraid of standing behind them. He reminds viewers that he cannot run for President under Constitutional law, as he was not born in the United States, but it is nevertheless a fun hypothetical exercise and who knows, anything can happen!

     1. Incentives for Families

Our tax code is the American citizen’s version of an employee benefits package. Depending on what actions it rewards, the population’s behavior is sure to follow. With this in mind, one of PBD’s policy recommendations would be to stop financially rewarding women who have children out of wedlock. Fixing the tax system at its core by removing incentives such as food stamps, tax benefits, and welfare would discourage people from living unintentionally, thereby helping to repair the family unit by limiting the amount of single parent households.

PBD would re-write the tax code to reward people who raise three or more children while remaining married to the other parent of the child.

     2. Raising Retirement Age to 70

Aside from a few exceptions, the standard federal retirement age in America is currently 67 years. The original retirement age was 65 years from 1935 until 1983, when it increased to 67. People are not forced to stop working at 67 but can begin collecting social security and government and unionized workers are entitled to pensions around that age. You can actually begin collecting social security at 62 for a reduced amount.

Regardless, PBD would increase the retirement age to 70 years of age, but would not tax people between 65 and 70. This would prevent social security from running out and help the elderly save up money for their retirement.

     3. Entitlement Cuts

PBD also advocates for reducing entitlement programs every year by 7 percent. He would send people who rely on welfare back to work to make up for that cut in their monthly income, requiring them to work for the number of hours equal to their lost “wages.” They could perform jobs for the federal government like answering phone calls and cleaning up litter from our nation’s freeways. PBD realizes this ideology is not popular but since entitlement spending is the main driver of the federal debt, he argues this would help solve America’s deeper problems.

     4. Big Pharma

The U.S. and New Zealand are the only countries in the world that allow pharmaceutical companies to run advertisements. PBD would outlaw this, and he would also remove Big Pharma’s ability to hoard patents by incentivizing them to allow their competitors to make use of their drugs. He would also shorten the number of years patents could be held by a company.

      5. Education

PBD would incentivize private schools in America that do not push gender ideology and other culturally radical ideas to students. He would also incentivize private schools in general in an effort to fight against the power wielded by politically radical teachers’ unions. He would ask wealthy people to open private schools and instill America’s founding values in the curriculum for the benefit of our children and our country’s future.

     6. Immigration

As a child of immigrants, many would assume PBD would be all for lenient immigration laws. Not at all. Just as he had to wait many years to become an American citizen, so should everyone else who wants to immigrate to our country. “Great things are worth waiting for,” he says.

PBD would freeze the border and suspend all immigration, both legal and illegal for one year. During this time, he would gather America’s lawmakers and encourage them to reconsider our national priorities. After addressing America first, and making the care of our own our number one priority, he would return to the immigration question and find what policy is best suited to our needs rather than the needs of the world.

     7. Breaking Up Monopolies in Housing, Business, and Military

PBD would incentivize construction companies to build starter homes. If a builder is willing to build a home that could go on the market for less than $400,000, Pat would allow them pay 0 percent in taxes for the project. This would be done to make home buying easier for America’s young people, as they simply cannot afford to buy houses right now.

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Pat also wants to break big companies apart and incentivize the creation of small businesses. Similarly, he wants to reverse the policy pushed by Congress in 1993 to merge the 51 defense contractors into the five companies we know today: Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics. This degree of consolidation eliminates competition, causing quality to suffer and allowing oligarchic power dynamics to form between the elite and the people. This is not only bad for freedom and equality but bad for the free market. It also leads to frequent and costly wars because of the military-industrial complex it creates.

     8. Hero-Making Machine

PBD wants to create a cultural program that would elevate heroes and incentivize people to become active leaders for the people in their lives. He would start a “180 program” to recognize individuals that took a 180 degree turn in their lives, going from convicts or drug addicts or just mediocre complainers to business executives and community role models.

Another initiative under this cultural renewal program would increase the number of books Americans read per year. According to a Pew Research study, adults with annual household incomes of $30,000 or less are more than twice as likely to be non-book readers compared to households with incomes of $75,000 or more. Only 15 percent of $75k+ households were non-book readers, compared to 31 percent of those making less than $30k. Pat would set up a national book club to encourage reading among American adults to help citizens improve themselves and defeat our culture of electronics-induced distraction.