A single $5 million ‘Gold Card’ could raise more in a year than EB-5 did in a decade—and that’s just Phase One. Pair it with a 15 % flat corporate tax, a $100 K talent fast-track, and $50 K fines for illegal hires, and America stops managing decline and starts monetizing its magnetism.
President Trump's $5 million Gold Card program represents precisely the kind of bold thinking that American economic policy has lacked for decades, but it needs to be part of a much larger transformation to deliver the results Trump promises his voters.
While Trump has correctly identified that America should monetize its appeal to wealthy global investors rather than treating immigration as a burden, his corporate tax proposals and enforcement policies remain incomplete. In this column, I propose the Enterprise Frontier Model that would build upon Trump's proven instincts by creating a broad framework to address the full scope of America's current competitive problems while generating the revenue needed to fund the transition.
The stakes could not be higher. American companies invested $847 billion overseas in 2024 compared to just $623 billion domestically, a reversal that reflects decades of policy mistakes that have made foreign countries more attractive than America for business expansion. Trump's approach offers the first realistic path to reversing this trend, but only if implemented as part of a broad overhaul rather than one-off reforms.
