Beto Announces His $5 Trillion Climate Change Plan, Humiliates Himself

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If you thought Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” was a fringe joke, you’ve been sorely mistaken.

Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has unveiled a $5 trillion– that’s trillion with a “T”– plan to combat “climate change.” He believes climate change is the “greatest threat we face.”

“The greatest threat we face — which will test our country, our democracy, every single one of us — is climate change,” he said.

Here we go again.

“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,” he warned.

How many times have liberal politicians declared that we have “once last chance”?

O’Rourke’s plan – his first major policy rollout since launching his presidential campaign in mid-March – calls for “mobilizing” $5 trillion over 10 years to transform the nation’s aging infrastructure and spur innovation to help communities lead the fight against climate change. O’Rourke’s campaign calls the price tag the “single largest investment in fighting climate change in history.”

How’s he going to pay for this, exactly?

He’s going to tax you more. Duh.

According to a proposal released by his campaign, O’Rourke would leverage $500 billion “in annual government procurement to decarbonize across all sectors.”

The candidate says he’ll pay the bill for his plan with $1.5 trillion from “revenues generated by structural changes to the tax code that ensure corporations and the wealthiest among us pay their fair share and that we finally end the tens of billions of dollars of tax breaks currently given to fossil fuel companies,” according to his campaign’s release.

His plan also calls for serious executive action maneuvers on day one.

The proposals also calls for executive actions on the his first day in the White House to “start cutting pollution across all sectors of the U.S. economy,” and working with Congress to produce a “legally enforceable standard” to make sure the U.S. achieves net-zero emissions by 2050 — and getting halfway toward that goal by the end of the next decade.

Go ahead and run with that, Beto. You’re helping us. This is the kind of utter nonsense that will hand President Trump yet another victory.

h/t Fox News