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For everyone wondering how to pay for a Green New Deal, we need to re-learn the history of the WWII mobilization, when US government spending rose from about 5% to 45% of GDP overnight, with unprecedented deficit spending, govt bonds, much higher taxes, etc. We can do this.
US debt as % of GDP were also much higher during WWII. US could cut military spending, raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations, raise taxes a bit on everyone else, sell bonds, and engage in other methods of deficit spending with long historical precedent. 
