Anyone have a counter proposal that would better achieve the states goals, with the same money?

Stuff like:

Local market-driven investment, private sector matching, streamlined regulations, education, infrastructure, promotion, independent evaluation, and competition to foster tech hubs in selected cities.

Thoughts?

Serial startup founder. (Businessofai.co)
Podcast host. (Otherspaces.live)
Community builder. (Superdebate.org)

Two ideas:

- X Prize milestone based grants (can make them smaller than $1B) that any team that hits the objective physics or chemistry outcomes automatically gets paid out.

- Any city above 200,000 people that builds X units of market rate housing within 0.25 miles of a transit hub gets an automatic $X00 million

Use to fund severance and pensions for IRS wind-down—then implement a taxation system meant to make it as non-intrusive and easy-to-administer as possible—

—by merging all federal tax collection systems into a national sales tax—to be imposed by taking a percentage of states’ sales tax receipts periodically