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A bike for every American

A stimulus plan to get America rolling again

The Morse economic stimulus plan is straightforward and simple. Every man, woman and child in the United States would receive a government check for $1, 000. Now that's a stimulating chunk of money.

The catch: you have to use it to buy a bicycle. This is an economic program I can far more enthusiastically support than the elimination of stock dividends.

My favorite quote from the article:

"Detroit will love that," quipped UC Berkeley economist Alan Auerbach when I floated this notion, which he immediately dubbed "the Critical Mass Plan."

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I used to live in Detroit. Long time ago...