Posted on 06/28/2021 12:52:19 PM PDT by JV3MRC
A leftist assistant professor argued that the U.S. needs to spend trillions of taxpayer dollars to fight climate change. And spending “trillions” is just the “down payment,” according to her perspective.
University of California, Santa Barbara Assistant Professor Leah Stokes joined liberal news organization Democracy Now! to push her extremist vision for U.S. spending on what she called the “climate crisis.” Co-host Juan González asked Stokes to address the “state roles, uh, in addressing, uh, the uh, the climate crisis.” Stokes said the “states have an important role to play,” but she pivoted to emphasize her fixation on federal spending. “[T]he federal government really has the power of the purse. And we’re not talking about, sort of, a one-time surplus. We’re talking about spending trillions of dollars on the climate crisis,” Stokes bleated.
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How about we invite China and the rest of the world to clean up their messes to reach the US standard, then we can together work on whatever improves seem reasonable? Not a penny more by the US until then.
Question — where are the trillions to place a down payment on fighting climate change going to come from? Taxation? At confiscatory rates for companies and people who allegedly have too much? Paid by debasement of the currency, and tremendous inflation?
Where the heck does any entity, even the federal government, just come up with a few trillion to spend on any alleged issue???
Where is her “science”?
“Question — where are the trillions to place a down payment on fighting climate change going to come from? Taxation?”
It’s amazing how much tax can be raised at the point if a gun!
Its some idiot ranting about fantasies. Absolutely NO different from the homeless guy on the corner demanding Queen Elizabeth be arrested for allowing lizard-aliens to take over the world.
...but you miss the essential element - liberals feel we must lead the way, be the shining example, if we ever hope to ‘move the needle’ respective to the rest of the world following our lead.
It doesn’t matter how much it costs and of course once we do our part they will, naturally, follow. They’ll just see the error of their ways. China will stop building coal fired plants.
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smh. I’ve LITERALLY had this said to me. The gullibility of these people is beyond absurd.
These ‘professors’ don’t seem to know where the money to do it all comes from. It’s so easy to be generous with other peoples money - and they have no end of ideas on how to spend it. There’s also the assumption that it will not impact their perfect little world either.
Dollars to donuts says the prof doesn’t know what a “trillion” is mathematically.
We should tell the professor that unless and until liberals screaming “climate change” reduce their carbon footprint to zero they are just being obvious hypocrites.
I always ask who was the person driving the SUV which melted the ice during the Ice Age?
I think the best place to start paying for her idea is to take her salary away.
I went to UCSB. Beautiful place right next to the beach. Is the ocean lapping at the base of the cliffs next to campus where the beaches used to be? No? Maybe the crisis is not as profound as Prof Leah says...
Leftists are in effect demanding unilateral disarmament by the US. Either everybody is in with verification, including China, Russian, India, Europe, or no deal. Not falling for your recipe for self-destruction.
The life and times of the bollwevil! Advanced Degree.
Want to get **serious** about pollution?
Slap a 1000% enviro-tax import on everything made in China and India - two of the worst polluter on this planet....
This ‘prof’ yammering away is just the latest watermelon on the scene.
Maybe he knows how to send firetrucks to the sun. I surmise that it is the activity of the sun and at what degree of tilt of the earth at any given time that controls earth’s climate. I believe it’s arrogant to think otherwise.
POLITICAL SCIENCE faculty member. IOW, STUPID! Every Poli Sci major/faculty members all believe that 1) gov’t should run everything and 2)they know better than you.
Questions, what evidence do you have that spending trillions will make any difference? Will China, India and Brazil do the same? Are you willing to cut back on social programs to pay for this? Etc.
If teach at a major university and political scientist are nuts/stupid.
What EXACTLY is she proposing to do with the money? Specifically? Because that's a lot of walking around money not to have a budget and game plan with defined goals to meet.
And promising that if we empty our wallets today, she will promise to lower the earth's temperature by one degree 100 years from today won't cut it.
I suspect she is just like AO-C and slept through economics in college and doesn't have a clue what that kind of money will do.
Besides, who in their right mind would give this kid that kind of money? Biden and the democRATS?
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