Kamala Harris: We Should Spend Trillions of Dollars on ‘Green New Deal’

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Kamala Harris says there are trillions of dollars available for Green New Deal

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris says the United States can easily afford the trillions of dollars the Green New Deal would cost taxpayers.

Speaking with CNN’s John King, Kamala said “If you talk to Democratic voters, they’re hungry, and they want ideas. So you’ll hear things like the Green New Deal. You’ll hear things like Medicare for all. You hear things whether it’s taxed at what point do you say that’s our north star, but we have to be realists?”

Breitbart.com reports:  Harris said, “There’s no question we have to be practical. But being practical also recognizes that climate change is an existential threat to us as human beings. Being practical recognizes that greenhouse gas emissions are threatening our air and threatening the planet and that it is well within our capacity as human beings to change our behaviors in a way that we can reduce its effects. That’s practical.”

King asked, “Can we afford it?”

Harris said, “Of course we can afford it,”

King said, “Two-and-a-half trillion dollars, $3 trillion for Medicare for all by some studies. Depending on which portions of the Green New Deal you choose to do first, that’s money. You know what Republicans are going to say, ‘tax and spend liberals, pie in the sky.’”

Harris said, “It’s not about a cost. It’s about an investment. And the question should be, is it worth the cost in terms of the investment potential? Are we going to get back more than we put in?”

4 Comments

  1. In the very next article: Professor Easterbrook pleaded, “The real question now is not trying to reduce atmospheric CO2 as a means of stopping global warming, but rather (1) how can we best prepare to cope with the 30 years of global cooling that is coming, (2) how cold will it get, and (3) how can we cope with the cooling during a time of exponential population increase?”
    Harris does not have a clue.

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