An incredibly telling thing Trump said at todays Paris event wasnt about climate at all

[babylonsister]

An incredibly telling thing Trump said at today’s Paris event wasn’t about climate at all
He simply has no idea what he’s talking about on any subject.
Updated by Matthew Yglesias@[e-mail] Jun 1, 2017, 4:43pm EDT


Perhaps the most telling thing President Trump said in his rambling justification of his decision to pull out of the Paris accords on climate change wasn’t about climate change at all. It was, rather, about the speedy advance of his administration’s tax bill in the United States Congress.


The thing about this is there is, literally, no tax bill.


No tax bill has been introduced to the US House of Representatives.
No tax bill has been introduced to the US Senate.
The White House has not released a tax plan that is detailed enough for experts to assess its economic or fiscal impact.

Indeed, just a week ago, Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney explained that what most experts saw as a $2 trillion accounting mistake in the White House budget was actually deliberate.

“It is and was too early to make any assumptions about what the final tax bill looks like," he told members of the House Budget Committee, and that’s why the proposal does not assume any fiscal cost of the tax legislation.

This is, to me, the scariest aspect of Trump’s approach to issues like the Paris accords.

Reasonable people can disagree on a range of policy issues. In this particular case, the fairly overwhelming consensus among experts seems to be that Trump is making a huge mistake for the American economy and for American diplomacy and making it meaningfully harder for the world to address climate change. But for a contrary view, I would recommend this take from Oren Cass, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and domestic policy director for Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign.

more...

https://www.vox.com/2017/6/1/15726594/trump-paris-tax-bill

[furtheradu]

1. Inept, Incompetent,Inappropriate in EVERY way

that is trump.

I do have HOPE, he will incriminate himself.
I do have FAITH in Karma, & Universal Timing.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I caught that, but on top of everything else he got wrong, I'm not sure...

it makes any difference.

Really, there he is defending coal when some of the fastest growing businesses are in renewables. He has no idea just how ignorant he sounds.

[babylonsister]

4. Yes

for instance... He's dumb and incurious. That too is a lethal combo.

https://thinkprogress.org/kentucky-coal-mine-solar-farm-a5d10d6526bb

Kentucky coal company plans to build the state’s largest solar farm

[WePurrsevere]

3. Perhaps he's confusing Trumpcare with a tax bill since...

Tax breaks for the rich seem to be more important in it than actually health CARE so to him it may be a tax bill.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[riversedge]

6. Mulvaney is a con man--out to con us all.