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One obvious comparison point to the newly launched "Green New Deal" that I haven't seen made is to Paul Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" plan, and the similarities and differences are telling.
(This should be probably be a blog, bear with it.) 1/6
(This should be probably be a blog, bear with it.) 1/6
They both are/were markers on the parties' story and goals in power. For Dems it's health care, employment, security; for GOP it was tax cuts, privatization and a big devolution of the state and social insurance. It's why a budget document called for repealing Dodd-Frank! /2
Yet 1st difference: GOP agenda ran in exact opposite direction of what it advertised. Ending the deficit, but also massive tax cuts, eliminating taxes on capital/corporate income, estates, etc. Whether health care merges with climate will be seen, but it isn't the opposite. /3
Second: Ryan told CBO to just assume they would keep revenues at 19 percent, impressing the press but infuriating those who understand the trick. His budget couldn't, and then the GOP never spent time trying to figure it out, just celebrating tax cuts. /4 taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/assume-…
Both plans have a central question, yet only one wants to answer it. The whole point of the Green New Deal is to get people discussing how to get to net-zero emissions. Can you do that in ten years? Maybe, maybe not. Make arguments. P2P literally didn't care. /5
Last, it is a sign of how much progressives need to pick-it-up, contrasting the headache inducing "FAQ" release vs. Ryan and conservatives knowing how to get the CBO to lie for them, dazzling the Washington press core with the headline they wanted, one they kept for years. /fin
