In "A Modest Proposal," what does Swift think the Irish should actually do rather than eating their children?

Swift uses verbal irony, stating the opposite of what he
means, in order to promote his ideas on what SHOULD be done to help the
poor.

Throughout the essay he poses his ridiculous
ideas--eating babies--to help this cause.  So when he uses verbal irony, it becomes very
clear that his ACTUAL ideas are the more sensible and reasonable (and actually quite
logical and simplistic as well!)

The verbal irony that
outlines his actual plan is as follows:

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Therefore let no man talk to me of other
expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither cloaths,
nor houshold furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: Of utterly
rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury: Of curing the
expensiveness of pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: Of introducing a vein
of parsimony, prudence and temperance: Of learning to love our country, wherein we
differ even from Laplanders, and the inhabitants of Topinamboo: Of quitting our
animosities and factions, nor acting any longer like the Jews, who were murdering one
another at the very moment their city was taken: Of being a little cautious not to sell
our country and consciences for nothing: Of teaching landlords to have at least one
degree of mercy towards their tenants. Lastly, of putting a spirit of honesty, industry,
and skill into our shop-keepers, who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our
native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the
measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of
just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to
it.