Making America Carbon Neutral Could Cost $1T a Year

Re:Making America Carbon Neutral Could Cost $1T a Year by orev on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:55PM (#19905307)

The thing about “cost” is, it’s about spending money. When you spend money it goes somewhere — to someone, which most people would call creating jobs. So we can spend $1T and make a ton of jobs, make money move around the economy which drives the engine, and in the end we’ve made the world a better place. Why exactly are Republicans against this plan? Aren’t they supposed to be the job creators?

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Re:Making America Carbon Neutral Could Cost $1T a Year by hackeraccount on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:15PM (#19905459)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

But it's as easy that the people opposed see the opportunity cost - if you spend $1T on this then you're spending -$1T on something else. Imagine if the Republicans proposed spending $1T on the military - why oppose it? It'll create jobs, right?

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Re:Making America Carbon Neutral Could Cost $1T a Year by ptah on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @05:08AM (#19907907)

but it will produce instruments of death so not really the same

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Re:Making America Carbon Neutral Could Cost $1T a Year by ptah on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @05:09AM (#19907910)

they claim to be, but generally aren't. i also think that it should be framed as a fiscal stimulus

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