I don't like that because I'm actually center-left!

You are not.

I hate communism

Ain't nobody reasonable talking about communism. Socialism? We're talking about aspects of socialism. We're still at the place where Ocasio-Cortez can say "we should talk about Modern Monetary Theory" and everyone loses their fucking minds, though.

love the free market

That makes you a neoliberal.

I am skeptical of single-payer healthcare... I suspect Germany's system may work better for us.

Mark Bertoloni, CEO of Aetna at the time, came out in favor of single-payer specifically the way Germany does it. Single-payer doesn't mean "socialized medicine" it means the federal government pays for plans that are administered by private insurance.

As for business taxes, they're way too high. They should be 0%.

That is not a center-left position. That is Grover Norquist reactionary.

You know how you solve it? By raising taxes during the boom cycles.

Recessions are generally called six months to a year in retrospect so your taxation structure would likely add a "pile on" effect more than anything. And really, you're doing what the Fed does already - lower interest rates when the economy is weak and raise interest rates when the economy is strong.

Schultz is an archetypal Republican. He's thinking of running as an "independent" because the Republican Party belongs to moon-howling Nazis at the moment. This is due to the fact that anyone who doesn't sieg heil and howl at the moon faces a primary challenge from the greater moon-howling wing. This is also why Schultz isn't even pretending anything like lower office; were he to run as a Republican he'd get drubbed by Dino Rossi or Doug Ericksen and were he to run for anything as a Democrat he'd get annihilated by pretty much everyone from Jay Inslee to certain well-spoken potted plants.