Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

If Bernie Sanders Is So Progressive, Why Is The Green New Deal So Regressive?

My latest column for @Forbes — please share! forbes.com/sites/michaels…

@Forbes Sanders may deny that his Green New Deal would increase energy prices, but in boasting that it will create 20 million more jobs, he is pointing to the reason why energy prices would rise. Making anything more labor-intensive makes it more expensive.

@Forbes And making energy, the master resource of the economy, more expensive, slows growth, which would reduce wage growth, and reduces the societal wealth needed for Sanders’ social programs, home-building, and more liberal social attitudes toward minorities, women, and children.

@Forbes Good point: there are 6M unemployed people in the U.S.

Where are the other 14M jobs supposed to come from?

Maybe @davidsirota @MattBruenig @ebruenig can explain

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