Green New Deal’s sticker shock should send Democrats running, but it won’t

Published March 1, 2019 7:33pm ET



The just-released cost estimate of $93 trillion for the Green New Deal is the kind of price tag that would have any rational consumer desperately exiting the showroom as fast as they can.

You read that right. A new study from the American Action Forum, which is run by a former head of the Congressional Budget Office, pegs the 10-year cost of the utopian lunacy known as the Green New Deal at more than four times the gross domestic product of the United States.

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