Are we quite sure that Presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg understands how economics work?
Buttigieg appeared on Fox News Sunday for an interview with host Chris Wallace to discuss his presidential campaign.
During the interview, Wallace questioned the 37-year-old mayor about climate change and the Green New Deal, a proposal to deal with issues both ecological and financial, which has been backed by the majority of Democratic candidates who have announced their 2020 ambitions.
Explaining what the Green New Deal would entail, Buttigieg said “it’s a handful of pages laying out a goal for us to cut carbon emissions, before they lead to changes that really destroy our economy and any prospect for people in my generation to do well.”
“I’m thinking about what the world’s going to look like in 2054, when I get to the current age of the current president,” Buttigieg, who if elected would become the youngest president ever, said. “And if we don’t act aggressively and immediately on climate, it’s not going to be a pretty picture.”
Explaining that the U.S. must rapidly curb carbon emissions, Buttigieg said “the bottom line is, scientifically, the right year to do that was yesterday.”
“We’ve got to do this,” he added. “This time table isn’t being set in Congress; it’s being set by reality.”
Buttigieg also discussed the benefit of retrofitting buildings to be more energy compliant, implying that the additional jobs created by a retrofit mandate would benefit the economy.
WIBC host Tony Katz discussed the fallacy in Buttigieg’s comments by exploring them in the context of “The Broken Window Fallacy.” Click below to check it out.
