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'If Environment Were a Bank,' Says Bernie Sanders, 'It Would Have Been Saved Already'
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The U.S. government took decisive action and spent trillions of dollars to bail out Wall Street banks in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, but it has refused to do the same to rescue the planet from climate catastrophea fact Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted in a pithy tweet on Friday.
"If the environment were a bank," wrote the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, "it would have been saved already."
(snip)
According to the Sanders campaign, the proposal would "pay for itself over 15 years" by hiking taxes on the rich and large corporations, slashing military spending, and boosting economic activity with massive public investment.
"Economists estimate that if we do not take action, we will lose $34.5 trillion in economic activity by the end of the century," the platform states. "And the benefits are enormous: by taking bold and decisive action, we will save $2.9 trillion over 10 years, $21 trillion over 30 years, and $70.4 trillion over 80 years."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/30/if-environment-were-bank-says-bernie-sanders-it-would-have-been-saved-already
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'If Environment Were a Bank,' Says Bernie Sanders, 'It Would Have Been Saved Already' (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Aug 2019
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yaesu
(8,020 posts)1. capitalism only cares about profit and wealth. It would be happy with burning the house down
around it if it could make a buck off it. Capitalism will be the death of Democracy & our civilization.
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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If I were to vote in a presidential
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Duppers
(28,123 posts)6. It already is.
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Karadeniz
(22,525 posts)2. How true, Bernie!
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calimary
(81,295 posts)3. Good point.
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NNadir
(33,523 posts)5. We are already spending trillions of dollars on Bernie's...
..."solution," worldwide.
It doesn't work and won't work.
The "if statement" that applies to the environment applies to Sanders himself.
If he were a person who knee or respected a shred of science or engineering he wouldn't be handing out smug pablum about the greatest threat to this planet humanity has encountered.
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crazytown
(7,277 posts)7. Fabulous line.
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Autumn
(45,096 posts)8. Ain't that a whole lotta truth.
It would have been saved and pampered.
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