PoD 1: Taxes in the 1950s are higher so that the average worker takes home 11% less income than IOTL, and let's say this extra budget is spent on paying debt, then in the 1960s, taxes go back to what they were in OTL, then in the mid 70s-1992, taxes are lowered and more money borrowing happens to the point where the debt-gdp would be the same in 1992 as it was in OTL.
PoD 2: there are 4 things I Here that are currently the biggest reason for america being less class mobile 1) 2 from the left which are the switch from Keynesianism to neo-liberalism & the cost of university courses going up at triple the inflation rate. 2) from the right is the war on poverty & lowering of tariffs that either accelerated or caused de-industrialization. I don't think either a republican or democrat president would do reverse all 4 of these factors, so in the 1992 election, Ross Perot wins the presidency, and changes the economic system from Neo-liberalism to something similar to Keynesianism but with the knowledge that inflation & unemployment can both go up. He also passes a law that all universities have to lower their fees by 11% and they can't rise their prices by more than half of the inflation rate (Ik this would eventually make owning a university unprofitable, but a president in the future could reverse this), doesn't lower tariffs like Bill Clinton and George W bush did (or if George HW bush did that then he Re-raises them) preventing all those mid-level jobs from going to China, Mexico etc. and ends the war on poverty. And 2 other things I personally think would do the trick.
PoD 2: there are 4 things I Here that are currently the biggest reason for america being less class mobile 1) 2 from the left which are the switch from Keynesianism to neo-liberalism & the cost of university courses going up at triple the inflation rate. 2) from the right is the war on poverty & lowering of tariffs that either accelerated or caused de-industrialization. I don't think either a republican or democrat president would do reverse all 4 of these factors, so in the 1992 election, Ross Perot wins the presidency, and changes the economic system from Neo-liberalism to something similar to Keynesianism but with the knowledge that inflation & unemployment can both go up. He also passes a law that all universities have to lower their fees by 11% and they can't rise their prices by more than half of the inflation rate (Ik this would eventually make owning a university unprofitable, but a president in the future could reverse this), doesn't lower tariffs like Bill Clinton and George W bush did (or if George HW bush did that then he Re-raises them) preventing all those mid-level jobs from going to China, Mexico etc. and ends the war on poverty. And 2 other things I personally think would do the trick.
- Reverse the bill Ronald Reagan signed where the employer had to cover the insurance of their employees)
- not build fences or whatever on the border with Mexico which made it harder for temporary legal workers to go home, instead just make the punishment for overstaying the VISA harsher.
- more regulations, laws & greater punishments are put in place to try and make tax evasion harder & discourage it. And to prevent all these billionaires from just moving to tax-havens like Gibraltar, cayman or monaco. Ross places huge sanctions on them, and tries to lead the rest of the ''free world'' with him (I think at the very least Germany & the Scandinavian countries would Join him).
- If lowering tariffs only slows down the rate at which those jobs leave the U.S. for Mexico & China, then Ross signs a law that either the federal or a state government will be a shareholder in the company that's moving it's factories, It seems like the lack of this was a big reason why many left, at least according to the info from 5:18 - 7:30 in this vid.
