Ocasio-COrtex and the Democrats are demanding that by 2030 every building in America becomes solar panel and windmill clean energy. To put that in perspective, because it’s not realistic, would mean that between 2,000 and 3,000 buildings a day would have to be reconstructed to conform to windmills and solar panels” Howard Schultz said. “So let’s be sensible about what we’re suggesting,” which of course is neither possible nor sensible.
Schultz criticized the “Green New Deal’s” employment guarantee provision.
“I don’t understand how you’re going to give a job for everybody, how you’re going to give free college to everybody, how you’re going to create so-called clean energy throughout the country in every building of the land,” he said. “I think it’s immoral to suggest that we can tally up $20, $30, $40, $50 trillion of debt to solve a problem that could be solved in a different way.”
Schultz also scrutinized talk among Democrats about hiking the marginal tax rate on the country’s richest people to 70 percent as “punitive.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Tuesday capitalized on what has is a wedge issue for Democrats by vowing to bring up the “Green New Deal” resolution for a vote in the Senate, a move that forces some Democrats to take a position on the controversial measure. The proposal outlines massive public investments in clean energy infrastructure, including a federal job guarantee paid by taxpayers to anybody seeking work during the transition to 100 percent renewable energy across all sectors by 2030.
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