Socialism: Everything can be fixed with a tax because the answer to everything is a tax and if you cannot pay the tax then there is a prison for that.
I have had liberals blow up at me when I suggested alternatives to universal basic income (UBI) to the robots taking all our jobs.
They said there is no other alternative to the high unemployment. I said yes, there is, reduce the labor pool.
How do you do that? Close the borders to end immigration, stop issuing visas, and deport illegal immigrants and their American born kids.
That would end the population growth, and it would reduce the labor pool by millions. Equally importantly, it stabilizes or reduces the size of the next generation.
Now you have fewer people competing for the fewer jobs that cannot be outsourced or automated. Unemployment doesn’t go up as high as it otherwise would.
If you DO have to pay unemployment, it becomes more sustainable because you aren’t paying for an increasing pool of unemployed people.