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Are You Sure About That?

What to Know: Democratic presidential candidate Jay Inslee says that a drastic climate change agenda is a “winning campaign issue.”

“I’ve heard it my whole career, from pundits, special interests and even political consultants: Just shut up about climate change if you want to be elected,” the Washington governor writes in the New York Times.

The TPPF Take: When Americans learn more about climate change policies—and costs—their support drops precipitously.

“For example, the city of San Antonio says there’s widespread public support for its proposed Climate Action and Adaptation Plan,” says TPPF’s Katie Tahuahua. “But when we polled San Antonio residents about what they would be willing to pay for such a plan, nearly half said ‘nothing.’ The better approach is to allow Americans more freedom to innovate—and to prosper.”

Maybe This Is Why

What to Know: A new study shows the Green New Deal would cost families tens of thousands of dollars—every year.

“Radically transforming energy consumption under the ‘Green New Deal’ (GND) would cost the average household at least $70,000 in the first year of its rollout, and a cool quarter-million dollars total after five years, a new study concluded,” Fox News reports.

The TPPF Take: The Green New Deal is a Trojan horse for massive new taxes.

“The centerpiece of the proposal is for taxpayers to take on truly unfathomable amounts of new spending and debt,” says TPPF’s Jason Isaac. “It won’t matter if you’re rich, poor, or in the middle; it won’t matter if you’re a big or small business, an individual, a student, or have a family; it won’t matter if you live in Texas or California, New York, or Florida. Everybody pays.”

A Terrible Precedent

What to Know: A new essay in Time magazine says doctors should screen more children for child abuse—because of a fear of racial bias in screening.

The piece explains the “new ‘think less, screen more’ approach being advocated by physicians … Doctors have a hard time imagining abuse in affluent, white families. Conversely, they suspect abuse more frequently in poor families and in African-American and Hispanic families.”

The TPPF Take: Seriously? Telling physicians to “think less” is an awful idea.

“If there is bias within a system, ‘screen everyone’ is a poor solution,” says TPPF’s Andrew Brown. “Mandatory screening—especially absent a family doctor’s reasoned judgment—will lead to more families being needlessly ripped apart, with more children subjected to the very real damage that removal into the foster care system causes.”