Bernie Sanders concedes his climate plan is 'expensive' (only 11.22 years left)

Washington Examiner ^ | 11/09/19 | Zachary Halaschak

[Libloather]

At an event in Iowa, Bernie Sanders acknowledged that his $16 trillion plan to address climate change is “expensive.”

The Saturday event, dubbed the Climate Crisis Summit, featured both the independent Vermont senator and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and was held in Des Moines, Iowa. During the event, Sanders spoke about his “Green New Deal” plan, which plays off a resolution by Ocasio-Cortez.

“Building on the Green New Deal, we have brought forth a rather detailed proposal, and I have been criticized by some who say it is expensive,” Sanders told the crowd Saturday. “Well, they’re right, it is. It’s $16 trillion.”

**SNIP**

Sanders proposes paying for the plan by cutting military spending, increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations, litigation, fees, and taxes on the fossil fuel industry, and “collecting new income tax revenue from the 20 million new jobs created by the plan,” in addition to other ideas.

[Libloather]

The $16.3 trillion plan intends to transition the United States to 100% renewable energy in a decade.

Isn't that what the California power outages are all about? Cutting off juice should cost less, not more.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks to: Erik Latranyi for the above

[fhayek]

Expensive? It is just a drop in the bucket compared to the $52 trillion for MFA. Bernie is a piker.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...collecting new income tax revenue from the 20 million new jobs created by the plan

Breaking every window in the country would create FIFTY MILLION new jobs. Plus, it has the added benefit of not destroying the Republic.

[butlerweave]

and total waste of money , go ahead Bernie say it ,SAY IT

[butlerweave]

Bernie must have been asleep when Obama created all those millions of Green Jobs ,LOL

[Revolutionary]

Tell every country in the world to send money to the U.S. or we will nuke them. Then say “just kidding”.

[ASOC]

Global warming is pure BS

Felow named Ben has put together this site
https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers/feed?filter=2
that shows how the math is all wrong & the UN ICC models are pitiful

[HotHunt]

Poor little ol' Bernie The Commie. If you give everything away for FREE, then yeah, it's going to be expensive.

Money doesn't grow on trees like you and AO-C think it does.

The government doesn't create it.

The US taxpayers pay their hard-earned money to pay for government giveaways.

And climate change is way down on their list of things they think are important for the federal government to be spending money on.

[exDemMom]

Sanders proposes paying for the plan by cutting military spending, increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations, litigation, fees, and taxes on the fossil fuel industry, and “collecting new income tax revenue from the 20 million new jobs created by the plan,” in addition to other ideas.

In other words, by crushing the economy and opening the US to unopposed foreign invasion. Can Bernie deign to explain to us how is this supposed to work, exactly?

[oldasrocks]

So what is his plan for china and the 92% of pollination and global warming they are responsible for?

[4Liberty]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Those Chinese bees must really hustle to handle 92% of the pollination.