Socialized Health Care in the USA

[kandrathe]

Elections have consequences.

You mean like WWII? Yes, they do.

"Honey, have you looked at this heating bill? It's outrageous!"

There is a portion of the electorate in Minnesota that needs energy assistance already. Now, double it, and cut the number of tax payers by 20%. In my state, when we run out of energy we die. Rather than die, we move south. I'm very much a pessimist here, but I see the dire down side of a government that forces the price of basic necessities (like food, and fuel) much, much higher.

FiveThirtyEight did an analysis of the CBO numbers state by state. Minnesota drops in the middle or residential CO2 due to our forward thinking on wind power, but Alaska is hit hard due to their need to use air planes to get around.

On the other side of the argument, Greenpeace has come out against Waxman-Markey as well.

You scoff at Cato, well here is Brookings (saying the same thing.) "reduce the level of U.S. GDP by around 2.5% relative to what it otherwise would have been in 2050" and "reduce employment levels by 0.5% in the first decade, with large differences across sectors" By 2050, the employment losses might amount to over 7 million jobs.