Double Down: Despite $93 Trillion Estimated Price Tag & Kamala Harris Again Dismisses Cost Of 'Green New Deal' Double Down: Despite $93 Trillion Estimated Price Tag & Kamala Harris Again Dismisses Cost Of 'Green New Deal' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ https://media.townhall.com/townhall/reu/ha/2019/23/6fceadc0-e69c-41a6-aa5a-6af20fb91d81.png Earlier in the week, we took note of Kamala Harris test-driving a talking point in defense of her breathtaking multi-trillion-dollar agenda.  She told CNN over the weekend that her gigantic proposals were essential and "not about a cost."  She claimed that the eventual return on those "investments" would justify the actions taken.  As I argued in my analysis, regardless of whether one agrees with her ROI calculus, such judgments do not eliminate the costs associated with each element of new spending.  She can try to persuade people that the lofty price tags are worth the money -- and, by extension, the methods of collecting all that money from taxpayers.  She cannot, however, argue that those lofty price tags don't actually exist, and that the bills wouldn't need to be paid.   It now looks like her answer to John King's question was not an accidental one-off.  She's leaning into it as a go-to deflection away from extremely important questions about the role of government, the scope of government, and the fiscal solvency of government.  Here she is appearing on a podcast in Iowa, repeating the same vacant formulation: Kamala Harris Doubles Down Claiming Costs Don't Matter For Big Gov’t Pro...  https://youtu.be/s1twCPGFx6c via @YouTube "I would say to them that we have to reframe the perspective," Harris said. "And instead of looking at the issue of ensuring that all people have access to health care because the premise there is that access to affordable health care should not be a privilege, it should be a right. It should not only be accessible to those who can afford it, it should be accessible to all. Then when people start saying cost, cost, cost, my response is ‘No, it's not about cost. It's about investment. It's about investment.'" ( FULL STORY IN LINK BELOW ) https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/02/28/double-down-despite-93-trillion-estimated-price-tag-harris-again-dismisses-cost-of-green-new-deal-n2542244