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York"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Green New Deal Comes to New York"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A ban on skyscrapers. Wind turbines in the middle of one of the most overcrowded and noisiest cities on earth. Billions in building renovation costs. Stopping natural gas. Shutting down all the power plants. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Green New Deal is coming to New York City. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We are going to ban the glass and steel skyscrapers which are inefficient,” Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on MSNBC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was the first warning most New Yorkers got of what their radical city government had wrought. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We're actually making the Green New Deal come alive here in New York City,\" the leftist mayor explained. As if anyone except for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez thought that was a good thing. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JXkwBglvf6I\/XM55X29_cNI\/AAAAAAAARdg\/eDly_MgH5cYiewwIr0Qe1SSuwOkidyjrQCLcBGAs\/s1600\/trainwreck.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"901\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JXkwBglvf6I\/XM55X29_cNI\/AAAAAAAARdg\/eDly_MgH5cYiewwIr0Qe1SSuwOkidyjrQCLcBGAs\/s320\/trainwreck.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe Big Apple has no cows to ban. And without planes, it would be cut off from the rest of the planet. But its version of the Green New Deal will still find dozens of ways to make New Yorkers miserable. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBill de Blasio claimed that the city would switch completely to ‘renewables’ in only 5 years. That would be a spectacular achievement since neither solar nor wind energy work all that well in New York. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York ranks 47 out of 50 states in average sunlight hours at only 3.79. It’s windier than it is sunnier, but still only comes in at 28 out of 50 with an average annual windspeed of 0.05 miles per hours. Turbines need winds of 10 miles an hour to start working and city winds are not only erratic, when they blow, they come from different directions, making conventional wind energy setups all but useless. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times even noted that the city’s turbines were for show, with the builder of the city’s first wind turbine building installation admitting that they barely did anything. “On a good day, there’s maybe enough energy to power the common areas,” he said, “but we don’t get a lot of good days.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Our installers spend more time convincing people not to build turbines than to build them,” New York State’s turbine program director said. “The conditions really have to be ideal.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut now there are a whole lot of mandatory wind turbines coming to New York City’s rooftops. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the Green New Deal bills mandates either solar panels, plants or wind turbines on roofs. There’s also a bill pushing large wind turbines. Aside from killing birds, wind turbines make lots of noise. And they have been known to catch fire or collapse. When that happens, metal can turn into shrapnel that has been known to travel for as much as a mile. Who needs terrorism when scrap metal from a badly installed wind turbine rains down on Manhattan commuters? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that won’t stop New York’s version of the Green New Deal, the Climate Mobilization Act. The Act is a package of 10 bills, three of these include massive building retrofits, including the so-called ‘Skyscraper Ban’, that would force major revamping of even existing buildings, while also creating a loan program. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E7 others call for a study on replacing the city’s 21 power plants with solar, wind and batteries, mandate turbines and solar panels on roofs, and stop a pipeline meant to bring natural gas to New York. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe skyscraper ban meanwhile targets buildings over 25,000 square feet with fines if they don’t reduce energy usage. That’s why Bill de Blasio was announcing the end of the glass and steel skyscraper. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of De Blasio’s flunkies estimated that it would take $4 billion in work to meet those targets. That’s heavily optimistic and unrealistic. It may easily cost a hundred times that and still fail because its targets can’t be met. And the plan depends on believing that its existence will create an energy efficiency boom. The technology and financials that will enable it to work will come into being because of its existence. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the skyscrapers aren’t actually going anywhere. Middle class housing is another matter. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf your skyscraper is using too much energy, you can offset it by buying renewable energy credits. It’s the same old scam in which a fake crisis is used to feed money to powerful green energy donors. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile a Queens co-op of senior citizens on fixed incomes is facing climate regulation doomsday. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“To get down to even 20 percent from where I am today, with the technology that exists, there’s nothing more that I can do,” a co-op board president said. “It’s not like there’s this magic wand.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey can dig into their fixed incomes to buy “renewable energy credits” from green billionaires. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s what the Green New Deal and every environmental measure comes down to. Rent seeking regs are used to steal money from the struggling middle class and put it into the pockets of wealthy lefties. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMayor Bill de Blasio, in traditional radical fashion, is selling this as a crackdown on the skyscrapers of the wealthy. But the ugly reality is that it’s stealing money from senior citizens to give to green investors. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStopping a natural gas pipeline won’t hurt the city’s new elites. It will be the senior citizens that will freeze. Tight energy use regulations won’t keep Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and the rest of the expat hipsters from using central air, with wind turbines on their building roofs for show, but it will mean that working class New Yorkers won’t be able to run their air conditioners in the killing summer heat. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiving in New York City already isn’t affordable. The Green New Deal will make it impossible. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese regulations will squeeze what’s left of the city’s middle class out. They will make it impossible for anyone who isn’t wealthy or on welfare to remain in New York City. That’s what they are meant to do. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We are on the precipice of climate disaster, and New York City is acting,” City Council Speaker Corey Johnson declared. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York City is on the precipice of disaster, but it isn’t caused by the climate, but by the Coreys. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I remember the devastation of Hurricane Sandy like it was yesterday. There weren’t many climate change deniers left in our city. Not after that,\" Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHurricanes are a reality of living in the region. What made Sandy so devastating wasn’t climate change, it was the ineptness and poor planning of city, state and federal authorities who failed to prepare, provide aid or produce a plan for dealing with a natural disaster. Blackouts that took down the power grid, including hospitals, occurred because power plants had been positioned right next to the water. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York City is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy, not because of climate, but because of government mismanagement. Instead of building an energy grid and communications infrastructure capable of coping with a hurricane, billions are being diverted into a bizarre plan to change the weather with fines and taxes. No matter how many fines and taxes are imposed, the weather will not change. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat will change is livability. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe emissions caps will dramatically raise the cost of living in New York City. It will eliminate all housing except that geared to the wealthy and the welfare class. It will also push more businesses out of the city. And that will take more jobs out of a city that already barely has an economy that benefits its residents. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBillions will flow into the companies of environmentalist donors. The targets, total renewable energy in 5 years, won’t be met. Skyscrapers will continue to be built, and the power plants will remain. The energy that powers the city will still come from oil and gas. But everyone will be obligated to buy renewable credits that have nothing to do with the actual sources of residential and commercial power. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEveryone in New York will get their power from ‘brown energy’ while paying companies in windier and sunnier states for ‘green energy’ that they will never access. And they won’t know any better. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere will be a small useless wind turbine on their roofs and some even more useless solar panels. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd, occasionally, an actual wind turbine will malfunction and take off somebody’s head. For the environment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/271824\/anti-semitic-leftist-hatefest-greets-trump-daniel-greenfield\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ethe above link\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. And t\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003Ehank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5845442594486096052\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2019\/05\/the-green-new-deal-comes-to-new-york.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5845442594486096052"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5845442594486096052"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2019\/05\/the-green-new-deal-comes-to-new-york.html","title":"The Green New Deal Comes to New York"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JXkwBglvf6I\/XM55X29_cNI\/AAAAAAAARdg\/eDly_MgH5cYiewwIr0Qe1SSuwOkidyjrQCLcBGAs\/s72-c\/trainwreck.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8967269031118820893"},"published":{"$t":"2019-03-04T23:33:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-20T18:43:35.898-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Alexandria Ocasio Cortez"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Elizabeth Warren"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Massachusetts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"New York"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"socialism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What Taxing the Rich Did to Warren and Ocasio Cortez's States"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Tax time is usually an unhappy time for taxpayers, but a joyous time for government employees and the welfare class that gets more in “refunds” than it ever pays in taxes. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut this year, tax time is a depressing time for the taxmasters in the big blue states. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlue states use high taxes to finance their frivolous spending. But this year, the money just isn’t there even as House and Senate lefties from big blue states tout new plans to soak the rich. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Elizabeth Warren made headlines by building her 2020 campaign around a “wealth tax”. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarren called it, “the 'Ultra-Millionaire Tax” and claimed that it only “applies to that tippy top 0.1% – those with a net worth of over $50 million”. That’s convenient because the millionaire class warrior’s own estimated net worth tops out at around $10 million. When millionaires like Elizabeth Warren talk about taxing wealth, they mean the wealth of the millionaires who are wealthier than they are. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--wOhZxg_pQs\/XqX-zNfijzI\/AAAAAAAAR48\/AYHwt04mjxAk4Jm77GaH9aWfrtjUxcMJwCPcBGAYYCw\/s1600\/elizabethwarren3.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"901\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--wOhZxg_pQs\/XqX-zNfijzI\/AAAAAAAAR48\/AYHwt04mjxAk4Jm77GaH9aWfrtjUxcMJwCPcBGAYYCw\/s640\/elizabethwarren3.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut over in Warren’s Taxachusetts, soaking the rich isn’t keeping the blue state model afloat. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMassachusetts experienced a January tax revenue shortfall of $195 million. That’s down 6% from 2018. And January is the cold, snowy month that is meant to account for 10% of the revenues for the year. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDecember was none too cheerful either. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"While most major categories of revenue continue to perform generally as expected, Massachusetts, like a number of other states, experienced below-benchmark performance in the category of non-withheld income in both December and January, particularly in individual estimated payments,\" the head of the Department of Revenue announced. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“As serious as a heart attack,\" New York’s Governor Cuomo was much less restrained when discussing New York’s $2.3 billion plus revenue shortfall. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“This is the most serious revenue shock the state has faced in many years,\" State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warned. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Tax the rich. Tax the rich. Tax the rich. We did that. God forbid the rich leave,\" Cuomo groused, noting that the 1% of wealthy tax filers also pay almost half the state's income taxes. But, after tax reform, many of the rich were fleeing. Florida, with no income tax, was a commonplace destination. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew York lost almost 50,000 people last year. Florida gained over 300,000 people. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I want to personally welcome anyone escaping high tax states to join the hundreds of thousands of their former neighbors who have already moved to Florida,” Governor Rick Scott announced last year. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“For richer people, your tax liability could have gone up now $100-, $200-, $300,000,” Governor Cuomo whined. “And there is a tipping point where people say, ‘I love New York, but to spend another $300,000 in taxes? I’ll move.’” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the Occupy Wall Street era, Mayor Bloomberg had warned about the danger of tax hikes. “One percent of the households that file in this city pay something like 50% of the taxes. In the city, that's something like 40,000 people. If a handful left, any raise would make it revenue neutral.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis successor, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is a lazy Marxist and clueless about economics. “Brothers and sisters, there’s plenty of money in the world,\" he declared in his State of the City address. \"There’s plenty of money in this city. It’s just in the wrong hands.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ‘wrong hands’ being any hands other than his pudgy manicured fingertips. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese days he’s singing a different tune. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn February, a doleful De Blasio declared that the city expects to see $935 million less in income tax revenue. That 7% drop is going to make New York City’s $92 billion budget, up $3 billion since last year, a lot more challenging. And, for the first time ever, he demanded that city agencies cut three-quarters of a billion, even as he doubled down on welfare to polish his progressive image for a presidential run. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We have some tough choices up ahead,” he warned. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESorry, “brothers and sisters”, suddenly there wasn’t “plenty of money in the city” anymore. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who made headlines with a 70% tax rate, paying attention to her own backyard? And by that, I don’t mean New York City. The fake “Girl from the Bronx” is actually from one of the wealthiest suburbs in the country with the highest property taxes in the country. Westchester took a downgrade from its AAA rating back in the fall. Another downgrade may hit it within two years. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHome prices are falling as tax reform is hammering Westchester’s deeply flawed economic strategy. And the flawed blue state economic strategy of tax happy enclaves around the country. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew Jersey’s Department of the Treasury noted a 35% tax revenue fall. California State Controller Betty Yee reported a $2.5 billion revenue shortfall. Tax reform is in the wind. And it’s blowing away the blues. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe blue state model hollowed out the greatest cities in America by making them unlivable for the middle class. High taxes in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and countless other cities have turned them into enclaves in which you either need to be rich or on welfare to be able to live in them. And that has made the blue state model precariously dependent on a small and very wealthy tax base. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELefty politicians solve everything by spending more money and raising taxes on the wealthy. Tax reform made that an unsustainable strategy because, suddenly, red state taxpayers weren’t covering blue state tax bills. And that revealed just how hollow and vulnerable the blue state economic model really is. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen you don’t have a middle class, then the tax burden falls on a very small and mobile population. Unlike the middle class, which is tethered more tightly to jobs and single homes, the sorts of people that progressives are obsessed with taxing are a less stable tax base because they are fewer and freer. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe flip side of class warfare is that your targets can fight back by leaving and leaving you with nothing. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Elizabeth Warren and other blue staters want to take the same failed model nationwide. Their fantasies of a massive national tax hike try to escape the limitations of tax reform by imposing taxes that no one can escape by moving to Florida. Lefties love telling us that we should learn from Europe. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a pity that they never do. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrance tried out a tax on the ‘super-rich’. And they packed up and left. The failed state which has the highest tax rates in the modern world is losing its tax base. 10,000 millionaires left France in 2015. 6% of Parisian millionaires got out. 12,000 millionaires left in 2016. Many moved to the US and to the UK. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocialists, as Britain’s Margaret Thatcher had observed, “always run out of other people’s money.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to take the same high taxes that devastated Massachusetts and New York nationwide. The blue state model wrecked blue states. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow the wreckers of Massachusetts and New York want to wreck America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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