Trump just proposed ending all federal clean energy development He’d end all research on solar, wind

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Trump just proposed ending all federal clean energy development

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-zero-out-federal-clean-energy-56cca794790#.msxuqyawn
He’d end all research on solar, wind, efficiency, batteries, clean cars, and climate science, too.

CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

In the last week, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to zero out all federal spending on clean energy research and development. And the plan he released would also zero out all other spending on anything to do with climate change, including the government’s entire climate science effort.

You may have missed this bombshell because team Trump did not spell out these cuts overtly. In a campaign where the media has “utterly failed to convey the policy stakes in the election,” as Vox’s Matt Yglesias explained recently, it appears only Bloomberg BNA bothered to follow up with the campaign to get at the truth of Trump’s radical proposal.

Polling guru Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com fame gives Trump a one in three chance of becoming president. So I agree with Yglesias that we ought to seriously look at the implications of Trump’s proposals — especially since if Trump wins, he’s all but certain to have a GOP-controlled Congress to back him.


Trump’s newest energy plan................

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Yeah, that'll certainly put the USA down there with third world countries, making

zero advancement in new technologies.

[anamandujano]

2. Hillary's campaign should trumpet this. How could anyone in a so-called green party throw away

their vote, a vote which might enable the opposite of everything they stand for?

[jmowreader]

3. There are going to be lots of other cuts too

Trump has four yooge planks in his platform:

* slash rich people's taxes to the bone so...I don't know, make it so rich people don't have to do anything they don't like?
* vastly increase military spending
* build that fucking wall
* balance the budget

Throw out the fourth plank. No Republican really wants a balanced budget. Republicanism absolutely requires a significant deficit because a balanced budget means they can't get rid of (insert name of whatever social program they hate worst at this second) to balance the budget.

That still leaves three massive spending programs: the Neues Berliner Mauer Trump intends to construct along our southern frontier, the huge military increases and the tax cut. In order to at least pretend to balance the budget, he'll be "forced" to eliminate everything else from the budget. EVERYTHING! Including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, SSI, the FDA, you name it and if it isn't designed to kill people...out it goes.

I wonder if he realizes Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was not intended to be a blueprint for a utopian society.