#2 is already happening, that's what the Internal Revenue Service *does*.

50% revision from a survey is not consistent or predictable.

But we do know the answers- just use the information reported to the IRS from every employer doing business in the United States instead.

Maybe we shouldn't need to report the same data to multiple agencies? Estimated taxes, 1099s, and W2 information is already available from the IRS. You don't need to "survey" anybody, you can get down to the penny reads on the entire economy.

Mediterranean resorts do quite well, as I remember

Is there some racist reason in South Carolina that poor people can't move to Appalachia on the other side of the fall line?

Or, gasp, abandoning non-viable coastal cities.

Wouldn't it be better to relocate the people rather than build the sea wall, and just depopulate Charleston which is no longer viable as a city?

There is no privacy, and privacy apps are only used by scammers and criminals anyway.

Please explain to me why you think that Reuters, a news agency, is liberal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection SAI certainly does have more promise than most I've seen. Thank you for the link..

I'm all for replacing coal with nuclear, deep water siphons, tidal generators, wind, solar, and ground loop air conditioning.

All the better if it's done for the right reasons- and in a way that takes advantage of the ambient energy of the earth, rather than fossil fuels.

I just don't think you're going to stop global warming that way- at all. We've done too much damage, and it's out of our hands now.

There are sound distributist economic reasons for switching to ambient energy, not the least of which is that the grid is based in fraud.

Nothing like clicking on the wrong thing and losing the post.

What I want them to do is to use the data the IRS is already collecting quarterly if not monthly. Every legal employer is reporting, either W2 or 1099. You know down to the smallest part time job who is working legally.

You will miss illegal workers this way, but the numbers HAVE to be more accurate than surveying 60,000 households to guess at what 400,000,000 people are doing.

What is needed is telling the right story *the first time* as opposed to revising the numbers 3 months later after you've caused 3 months of people lying to the unemployed of "just get a job" when you know the jobs never existed to begin with.

Way back in the seventies in his book "The Futurological Congress" if I am not mistaken.