love the double standards of scrutiny progressives get, talk tax cuts for 'everybody' and you'll find the WaPo enthusiastic, talk about a national plan for our energy future and suddenly we're nutters.
It's a columnist who has already been taking swings at AOC.
Also, I like how both of these paragraphs are in the same article:
But arguably Ocasio-Cortez’s team wasn’t really trying to put together a practical document. Rather, it articulates an ideal, one that we may never reach but should at least strive for. And there’s something appealing about that argument, because climate change is a pressing concern, and even if it weren’t, there would be ample reasons to want to obtain as much energy as possible from renewable sources.
The Green New Deal is nice vision of where the United States might try to go someday. But as an actual blueprint for the immediate future, it’s lunatic. And no matter how technically or morally sound your goals may be, as an opening political message, “We’re nuts!” is neither efficient, nor state-of-the-art.
Check the author's page for other great material such as "Could Howard Schultz be the common ground we need?"
What a shitpost
Going by my experience at energy-efficiencizing, I’d estimate that the
Ocasio-Cortez plan would require the entire population of the United
States — or at least those who aren’t “unwilling to work”
lmao oh my god what is this line implying
Washington Post and New York Times are in a race to see who has the worst opinion pages
Wow this columnists page is like a Hall of Fame of the hottest takes around.
even my right wing family believes we should have a national 10-20 year energy plan, this is not divisive if you aren't directly recieving money from coal production and consumption.
its not even like we would ever 100% stop using oil and fossil fuels, its just if we were to cut out burning them for fuel and majority of our power we've solved the immediate problem of climate change, and if we buy ourselves another 100 years for it we can get fusion online and start sucking the carbon out of the air one way or another.
Working towards a renewable energy system domestically and globally will bring about the stability fossil fuel proponents drone on about as the technology should allow any country to generate significant amounts of power regardless of whether they have huge reserves of coal or not.
put the money into research and get past the lithium-cobalt batteries into the sulphur or carbon batteries and we won't have any problem with battery production
these are things that they don't want to promote as it doesn't get them the same votes as promising to open new oil and coal fields gets.
we should let ted kaczynski write the green new deal
Tell me he didn't go nuts, I liked his content
he went full "Enlightened Centralist" about the Holocaust. He thought there was some "Good Use" of it through the medical experiments that happened.
Even though they weren't really medical experiments and more of just demented experiments and excuses to use cold torture to holocaust victims. And there was nothing to be gained from them.
What sucks is the Green Deal is too radical to make any traction. We'd need to defund our entire military budget to pay for something like that, and that will never happen, let alone Big Oil and other conglomerates lobbying against every single step. It's a great campaign goal to bring eyes to the issue but even half of it is way too ambitious to take seriously.
Lets not forget his "Gays should wait until the right time" nonsense
he's kind of always been a fence riding pussy, that's always been known, so it never surprises me
I still love the dude but he is really weak at picking any sides
How did the tax cuts for the rich work out? Did they pay the government back yet?
Hey about that, funny story. You'll never guess!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/10/millions-americans-could-be-stunned-their-tax-refunds-shrink/?tid=pm_pop
Enjoy your new smaller tax return, if you get one at all, courtesy of the Republican tax cut that was absolutely promised to improve employee wages and let American taxpayers keep more of their money.
Actually taxing the rich would be a tremendous start on doing something useful like funding public education again, but even with an extremely high tax it wouldn't be enough to cover half of this plan. If AOC wants a 70% tax on the rich it wouldn't be bringing the trillions in that they would need to even begin to pay for this. It's just way too monumental. All the articles I've read put the estimates at 30-50 trillion dollars.
In the long term it would obviously be better for everyone and create entirely new job fields to replace the old ones, paying for itself completely, but like I said it will absolutely never happen because the country isn't concerned about the long term and the businesses that stand to lose profit will kill it.
The biggest problem is the ability for the super rich to squirrel their money away in off shore accounts and hire accountants who have just as much illegal knowledge of workarounds than they do legal. Higher taxes means more scrambling to hide the money. I am not interested in hearing new tax rates until that is addressed with legislation.
How many of these people will actually remember this in 2020.
And how many of these people are "We vote GOP no matter what"
The Green New Deal is based of the principles of Modern Monetary Theory, which in esssence sets out the thoery that a monetary sovereign government can spend as much as the country can produce. It's a radical idea and has drawn it's fair share of criticism but it's important to note that the Green New Deal is not based of the standard set of economics ideas.
He's completely and utterly spineless to the point where he'd probably go along with literal nazis just because they're standing physically closest to him at that moment.
That's not really a change to previously though, it's just become more apparent since he doesn't stay out of issues and his surroundings are getting more polarised.
Having the idea is never good enough. They always want a plan, otherwise its worthless. When you give them a plan, they say it goes too far. When you adjust the plan, they say its unworkable. When are we going to ignore these concern trolls and do what's right for us and the environment? All they'll ever do is obfuscate the problem and delay the solution. Ignore them.
This is the lesser problem with Trump, now all the Republicans who aren't full blown white supremacists are going around calling themselves Democrats while still making the same talking points as Bush era Republicans.
This concern trolling and gaslighting by certain media figures is fucking shameful. The right gets to fully sell the country into corporate oligarchy with nary a peep but the minute the left actually takes a bold principled stand it’s “aggressive” and “going too far.” They said the same thing about the New Deal. This kind of plan is an investment, not an expenditure. It will pay dividends down the road and open the door to a massive new industry boom. Yeah, it’s ambitious, so what? We should shoot as high as possible. If we fall short, at least we tried.
They're right, we should just be happy with banning plastic straws and as the world ends we can be happy knowing that we helped
Irrelevant to the discussion (I apologize, PM's should be a thing) but is that Rick Rodriguez in your avatar?
"Liberal" doesn't really mean anything. US democrats are firmly right of center and, as far as I can tell, the WaPo's pro-corporate stance falls in line with these establishment Dems.
Links to "pro-corporate" stances?
Yeah, I've always found it funny that Liberals in America are different than Liberals in Australia. (well the Liberal Party)
Anti-left stances are easily found on the current front page.
It is conventional wisdom in Washington that the Republican addiction to tax cuts is mainly responsible for the huge budget deficits. This is, at best, a half-truth. Democrats are equally responsible, because they refuse to come to grips with the massive spending on retirement and health care. Expanding Social Security is mostly a political bribe that comes at the expense of other programs and workers, who must pay the resulting taxes.
Straight up "enlightened centrist" tier stuff.
Another example; advocates mixed healthcare system that preserves the insurance industry.
Trust me, that's not what an actual leftist paper looks like.
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