Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke on Monday unveiled an ambitious plan to combat climate change that spurs $5 trillion for the cause and aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
"The greatest threat we face -- which will test our country, our democracy, every single one of us -- is climate change," O'Rourke said in a statement. "We have one last chance to unleash the ingenuity and political will of hundreds of millions of Americans to meet this moment before it's too late."
O'Rourke's proposal has four main components. On his first day in office, he would take executive action to reduce pollution by doing things such as recommitting the United States to the Paris climate accord.
Then, O'Rourke's first demand of Congress would be to "mobilize" $5 trillion over 10 years to update infrastructure and speed up innovation to take on climate change.
O'Rourke would work with Congress to devise a "legally enforceable standard" to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 and halfway there by 2030. And finally, O'Rourke would boost resources to help communities already facing extreme weather, including pushing a 10-fold increase in spending on pre-disaster mitigation grants and broadening the federal crop insurance program to cover more threats.
O'Rourke's plan would not be cheap, and it calls for leveraging the $5 trillion mobilization by a "fully paid-for $1.5 trillion investment." O'Rourke proposes paying for that through "revenues generated by structural changes to the tax code that ensure corporations and the wealthiest among us pay their fair share." O'Rourke would also free up money by ending tax breaks to fossil fuel companies.
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Sounds like a sure winner with a $1.5 TRILLION TAX INCREASE......ONLY DeathRATS can come up with this shit!
"The greatest threat we face -- which will test our country, our democracy, every single one of us -- is climate change," O'Rourke said in a statement. "We have one last chance to unleash the ingenuity and political will of hundreds of millions of Americans to meet this moment before it's too late."
O'Rourke's proposal has four main components. On his first day in office, he would take executive action to reduce pollution by doing things such as recommitting the United States to the Paris climate accord.
Then, O'Rourke's first demand of Congress would be to "mobilize" $5 trillion over 10 years to update infrastructure and speed up innovation to take on climate change.
O'Rourke would work with Congress to devise a "legally enforceable standard" to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 and halfway there by 2030. And finally, O'Rourke would boost resources to help communities already facing extreme weather, including pushing a 10-fold increase in spending on pre-disaster mitigation grants and broadening the federal crop insurance program to cover more threats.
O'Rourke's plan would not be cheap, and it calls for leveraging the $5 trillion mobilization by a "fully paid-for $1.5 trillion investment." O'Rourke proposes paying for that through "revenues generated by structural changes to the tax code that ensure corporations and the wealthiest among us pay their fair share." O'Rourke would also free up money by ending tax breaks to fossil fuel companies.
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Sounds like a sure winner with a $1.5 TRILLION TAX INCREASE......ONLY DeathRATS can come up with this shit!
