New ‘Green New Deal’ proposal shows Bernie Sanders can’t do basic math

Published August 26, 2019 5:20pm ET



We all know that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t exactly a genius when it comes to economics, but now he seems to be having problems with basic addition.

With his latest proposal for a “Green New Deal,” Sanders is suggesting that we should employ more people than we actually have, and that we’ll somehow all make a massive profit. This is not, to put it mildly, how either basic arithmetic or more difficult economic analysis actually works.

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