Eakinomics: What Color Is Your Tax Bill?

Eakinomics: What Color Is Your Tax Bill? By now I assume that everyone is familiar with the Green New Deal, the massive proposed upheaval in American society that includes guaranteed housing, guaranteed jobs, food security, single-payer health care, free college, an all-renewables electricity grid, decarbonized transportation sector, and retrofitting of the houses and buildings across the land. But did you know there is a Red New Deal? As Teen Vogue (yes, of course I’m a subscriber) explains: “But a response has arisen amid concerns that the various programs embodied in different versions of the [Green New] deal could leave Native climate needs and understanding of the earth out of the conversation. That response is called the Red Deal.” But the Red and Green deals will not happen without some support. To that end, the Sunrise Movement (originators of the Green New Deal) has begun an initiative in Purple districts to elect those sympathetic to the Green and the Red deals. Also, Senator Elizabeth Warren, presidential candidate and human death star for calculators and abaci – has announced her Blue New Deal. As she puts it, “As we pursue climate justice, we must not lose sight of the 71% of our planet covered by the ocean. While the ocean is severely threatened, it can also be a major part of the climate solution – from providing new sources of clean energy to supporting a new future of ocean farming. That is why I believe that a Blue New Deal must be an essential part of any Green New Deal – helping us fight climate change, protecting our health, and creating good, high-wage union jobs in the process.” Clearly, we have a policy dilemma of many colors. But seemingly we have only one reliable solution: taxpayer dollars. I don’t know if my tax bill would be red, blue, green, or purple (what happened to yellow?). But I promise it would be very, very big.