AOC and the Green New Deal ( updated)

Let's not attempt to kill with kindness, but to correct with firmness. The so-called Green Movement is not about saving the Earth, but to destroy Western Civilization. The same is true for all left wing movements.

Yet, there are things that could be considered in a serious vein. I have attempted to do that with this blog. I have written on numerous occasions about how carbon neutral energy resources may be feasible. Also, I have written about fuel cell cars.

But let's not kid ourselves. The hard left will never adopt anything that may actually work.

They will always find reasons why a given technology will not be "green" enough for them.

Therefore, if you accept all their premises, they will get ever more extreme with their stupidities. They have to be opposed, but at the same time, you have to seriously attempt to work with them on some of their ideas. If any of those ideas can be made to work, then they can be seriously considered for adoption as policy.

What is the benchmarks for success so that they may be adopted? Number one, they must be economically feasible. It will do little good to price yourselves out of markets because of what you adopt as a "green" policy is so economically inefficient that you become uncompetitive. You can be assured that if your pet project is inefficient, someone will take over your market, and then you are out of business.

The second benchmark is that it won't infringe upon the freedom of our system. People have to freely choose a product or service, or we will lose our freedom. Most ideas along the lines that the lefties choose are coercive in nature. That means that nobody would freely choose to do it if they could. Therefore, if these ideas are stupid and unworkable, they should be opposed vigorously.

Consequently, the Green New Deal should only receive funding, if it is to receive any funding at all, for only those TEST projects that are the most promising. If the tests are successful, then perhaps they can be ramped up.

One idea that I had was to eliminate the income tax and replace it with a carbon tax. It would make some sense to support a carbon tax only if the individual income tax goes. Income taxes upon corporations would remain.

Taxes on imports could be laid if other countries do not play along.

Would that raise enough money? Probably not to satisfy the insatiable appetite of government.

However, for many years, the US government relied upon import taxes for much of its revenue.

The government these days has become too large to work with this, but somehow it must be downsized so that the least amount of taxes possible will be imposed.

That would be good answer to the Green New Deal. A flat "no" would probably not be sufficient.


Update:

Some might object to the use of the word "stupid" in the above paragraphs.  Would you prefer insane?

What else could you call bombing coal burning plants in China?  On the other hand, if you really believed that coal was so bad, then you could take such an idea seriously.

The only thing serious about that idea is how nutty it is.  The word "stupid" somehow fails to reach the mark.