How much taxes will escalate is to be determined. “The government” will likely have to spend, er...I mean invest, a few billion in this (literally) shovel ready project.
They’ll have to import labor as well.
On a local report about this out of Detroit they were interviewing locals about the idea. One of the gang bangers they interviewed thought it was a great idea but he didn’t plan to work on the farm “Cause my people done enough farmin in the south before the civil war”