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HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE LINING UP BEHIND WHAT COULD BE THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT IN DECADES
Daily Caller ^ | 12/25/2018 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 12/26/2018 8:38:02 PM PST by bitt

Democrats are lining up to support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal.”

The proposal could be the largest expansion of government since the Great Society or New Deal.

Ocasio-Cortez’s plan could cost tens of trillions of dollars.

Democrats are increasingly lining up to support a “Green New Deal,” which, while vague on details, could end up being the largest expansion of government in decades.

As it stands, the “Green New Deal” is more aspirational than actual policy. Indeed, it takes its name from the New Deal of the 1930s, and its main backer, incoming Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, compared it to the Great Society of the 1960s.

More than 40 Democratic lawmakers support the “Green New Deal” as part of a broad plan to fight global warming and bring about what they see as “economic, social and racial justice.” A poll found most Americans supported the deal, but knew little about it.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; duplicate; newyork; ocasiocortez; vermont
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To: SanchoP

PS You just were more graphic than I was.

We must oppose the LIEberals at every turn!

And make life miserable for them.

And support POTUS!


61 posted on 12/27/2018 7:39:01 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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