We're never going to get the debt under control unless you not only look at the spending side but the revenue side.
For people to deny those facts is a complete disconnect from reality.
if we become economically noncompetitive, we're never going to be able to grapple with the debt.
I think we should've done Simpson-Bowles a decade ago.
if we don't get ahead of climate change it is a national security imperative.
I agree with Senator Braun that the national debt is a huge issue.
I frankly believe, and I think you've raised this, respectfully to some of my other members, I don't think we can do it with solar and wind ...
I believe the economic danger is deadly real.
But the warnings are deadly serious across multiple vectors of danger.
What is protecting the massive fossil fuel subsidies and what is preventing policies to reduce the danger is the same thing, the fossil fuel...
The obvious way to fend off these economic shocks is to head off the cause of those shocks, fossil fuel emissions.