Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ripped one of her critics Thursday for suggesting the Green New Deal would cost Americans a fortune and require the government to confiscate every penny from billionaire and multimillionaires.
Ocasio-Cortez scolded conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg Thursday for saying in a tweet that taking every dollar from the likes of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and others would not “cover a fraction of your Green New Deal fantasy.”
“Totally get it if you’ve never bothered to read the legislation you’re commenting so authoritatively on,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in reply before noting that the GND is a “non-binding resolution of values” and “costs us $0 if passed.”
Hey there! Totally get it if you’ve never bothered to read the legislation you’re commenting so authoritatively on.
The Green New Deal is a non-binding resolution of values. It does not have a price tag or CBO score and costs us $0 if passed.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 14, 2020
Ocasio-Cortez’s signature legislation calls for several progressive proposals, including moving the United States off of fossil fuels within a decade, providing universal health care, basic income programs, and job guarantees, as well as a slew of other ambitious plans.
The GND would cost $0 if it remained a non-binding resolution and was not coupled with legislation satisfying the deal’s agenda.
Several reports have determined that legislation actually enacting the GND would be an expensive boondoggle.
The GND would cost households an average of between $74,287 and $76,683 in Colorado, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, a February report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute noted.
CEI, a conservative-leaning think tank, incorporated the costs of electricity production within the first year after Ocasio-Cortez’s deal’s implementation and the costs of a one-time upgrade to buildings and vehicles.
They also determined how the plan’s mandate would increase the cost of logistics in a modern American economy.
Other reports have reached similar conclusions.
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Liar Liar Pants on Fire who dose she think she is kidding with that load of malarkey well not me maybe other liberal Nit-Wits like Greenpeace and the usial Hollywood idiots
We’ve heard this tune many times before. They speak of “investments” and “revenue” when they mean spending and taxes. They predict fabulous outcomes and neutral or positive financial impacts, but they always deliver poor results and cost much more.
Wow, Green deal will cost $0. Oh, I got another one for you. The Wuhan Virus response won’t hurt the economy either.
If it’s a nothing burger, why does she want it? It smells the same as China signing the Paris Accord….
purely for propaganda purposes.
A New Green Deal Burger is a Nothing Burger No Burger Patty,No Pickles,,No Tomato,No Lettuce no Onion just a empty bun and bill the American Taxpayers
Non-binding, just like the Paris accord toilet paper.
AOC laying out the “green new deal” when she didn’t even know what a garbage disposal was. Words fail me.
Solar Panels in the California Desert and setting the Birds on fire and the Eco-Freaks don’t say a thing the same with Wind Turbines a hazard to Birds and bats not peep from the Greens