a. How do you feel about distinguished economist Gary Becker’s free-market approach to America’s immigration difficulties: In a market economy, the way to deal with excess demand for a product or service is to raise the price. This reduces the demand and stimulates the supply. I suggest that the United States adopt a similar approach to help solve its immigration problems. Under my proposal, anyone willing to pay a specified price could enter the United States immediately.

b. What about paying students to improve standardized test score performance?