- Warren noted that an independent analysis by Moody's projected that much of the cost of the plan would be covered by her proposed real corporate profits tax, which would raise $1 trillion in a decade by eliminating exemptions and raising rates.
- It includes a $400 billion Green Apollo Program for clean energy research and development, a $1.5 trillion Green Industrial Mobilization to purchase American-made green products for the federal government, and a $100 billion Green Marshall Plan to prod other countries to buy U.S. green technology.
- Her college plan and other high-priced proposals would be paid for with an ultra-millionaire tax that she says would raise $2.75 trillion in a decade from a 2-cent annual levy on every dollar of wealth over $50 million, according to the campaign.
- The Washington Times tally of a $5 trillion price tag did not include the cost of fully implementing a Green New Deal environmental makeover of the U.S. economy, estimated at between $52 trillion and $93 trillion, or Medicare for All, estimated at between $28 trillion and $32 trillion.
- Elizabeth Warren, who has made I have a plan for that the catchphrase for the campaign, rolls out spending proposals on an almost weekly basis.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/18/elizabeth-warrens-plans-cost-5-trillion-over-10-ye/
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