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Climate Sleight-Of-Hand

What to Know: San Antonio’s much-criticized Climate Action and Adaptation Plan has dropped references to specific cuts to fossil fuels—and estimates of costs to San Antonio residents.

The TPPF Take: The changes to the CAAP make its impossible goals even more unrealistic.

“What began as a virtue-signaling project by the city of San Antonio is now even further divorced from reality,” says TPPF’s Jason Isaac. “The truth is that CAAP’s goals—even if they were achievable—wouldn’t put a dent in global emissions. But real damage would be done to the city’s economy, and its residents.”

A Better Way

What to Know: Democratic presidential candidates put the spotlight on Detroit recently, but they were strangely silent on the very real problems in the failed city.

The TPPF Take: More government—and more government funding—isn’t the answer for Detroit.

“For too long, federal and state policy solutions to American poverty have revolved around cumbersome and inefficient government programs,” says TPPF’s Bradford Traywick II. “We must revive the spirit of Booker T. Washington’s efforts, which encouraged education, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance.”

Yeah, That’s a Tough One

What to Know: San Francisco Weekly asks a very unpuzzling question: Is California’s high cost of living driving away residents?

The TPPF Take: Of course it is.

“The average cost of a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is more than three times what it is in Dallas,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “The high cost of living—and more specifically, the cost of housing—is why California is the nation’s poorest state, according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure. People naturally go where their dollar goes further.”