In Georgia, Republicans Vote to Kill Green Jobs but Face Little Fallout. Republicans voted to get rid of clean energy subsidies in order to pay for Trump’s tax breaks, even if it meant hurting investment and jobs in their own districts. It was not supposed to be this way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/climate/republicans-clean-energy-credits-georgia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N08.KKtB.DMtz0admsefQ&smid=re-share

by mafco

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  1. > Ms. Greene argued in an interview that her district needed more workers, not more manufacturing. Polk County has a 3.1 percent unemployment rate, lower than the national average, and Ms. Greene said she believed that companies using green tax incentives were “importing foreign labor” because there weren’t enough local employees. “It’s fake job creation,” she said.

    and

    > “We’re not rich by any means, but nobody here is really hurting,” Mr. Short said. If the factory is not built, people will continue to work at Hon, an office furniture manufacturing company that has a factory in Cedartown, or commute to jobs closer to Atlanta or Birmingham, he said.

    I don’t think these people realize that when you have employers competing for employees, wages go up. MTG might know that and that’s why she’s against it though, she’s an evil fuck.

  3. Their entire party is built on hate – this isn’t surprising at all. Voting against their own best interests to stick it to their “enemies” is practically the party platform.

  5. Maga is a religion. It doesn’t matter who gets hurt in the rush to impose the will of their God, the great Orange Jesus.

  6. I remember a Republican governor who went in front of the cameras and stated Trump wouldn’t kill the part of Biden’s clean energy bill that his state was benefitting from, because it was a major economic boon for them. I would like to think he feels like an idiot now, but I bet he doesn’t.

  8. Progress in our country seems to lean on the whims of people unqualified to render a decision in areas where they are incompetent and inexperienced. Innovation where is it… no bullet train, clean energy naysayers, vaccine deniers, book burners…why would clean energy investments mean anything to this government?

  10. “It wasn’t supposed to be this way” What the fuck do you mean? Of course it was. Republicans have been railing against clean energy and calling climate change a hoax for decades. What the fuck else could you expect?

  11. Republicans never face electoral consequences since using Big Data allowed precise gerrymandering.

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