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1. Can't argue with ideologues, who call names when reason and logic challenge their worldview. This was supposed to be an answer to why on Earth we'd mandate the destruction of millions of Americans' lives for a phantom technology that doesn't even exist yet. It does not exist.
2. Proponents frame this as a choice between "dying in 12 years!" or destroying millions of Americans' lives for phantom technology that doesn't even exist yet. It's a false choice. If we want to see the day the technology does exist, then why would we move to an inferior model?
3. Market economies are more productive because they nurture innovation and creativity. Centralization does not and cannot plan for or react quick enough to inevitable crisis, such as the calamity The New Green Deal would cause. That's why they fail when those crises arise.
4. That crisis and calamity will arise from massive demand, and no supply because, once again, the technology DOES NOT EXIST. I agree that we should move to a MUCH greener world. I just support the smarter, quicker, and freer way to get there.
5. It's not a choice between doing nothing and destroying millions of Americans' lives, including your own. Neither Ms. Yorktown Heights herself nor anyone else on here, has the stomach to live a world where "New" Green Deals stifle innovation and set back civilization.
6. Further, there's nothing "New" about this Raw Deal. The plan is chock full of promises from the Leviathan, which will result only in their centralized power and our misery. While someone like AOC is a true believer, those who are using her, are not. They just want power.
7. From the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Accord, market economies have outperformed centralized planning in Green R&D. Think we all agree on what we want the future of the planet & energy to look like. We disagree on the best way to get there. Green New Deal is an inferior model.
8. That said, we've not prioritized this issue as a nation like, say, the space race, in which we kicked centralized planners' asses. While fossil fuels are getting much cleaner, there's no doubt rent-seekers stifle innovation. Still, market economies still manage to outpace.
9. That leaves us once again w/ the problem of special interest rent-seeking, which gets worse the more centralized a gov becomes. The answer to competitive disadvantage from centralization, is not more centralization. It just redistributes power to incompetent central planners.
10. I'll end with this final criticism. The Republican Party and other New Green Deal opponents have only themselves to blame for this. They are largely the home for those anti-green rent-seekers, and with their balls in a jar, never offer productive solutions to these issues.
