Here’s hoping it sparks a bit more interest in what else is pushing our national debt toward the $40 trillion mark.
Rahm Emanuel conflates “taxpayers” with “ratepayers” as he laments the federal government’s reductions of energy tax credits in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“Big Electric Bill? Thank Trump,” op-ed, Sept. 18).
There’s plenty to debate about these incentives, but no one in or around government should pretend they’re free. The U.S. Treasury last year estimated the two biggest energy-related credits, used primarily to subsidize wind and solar projects, would cost taxpayers $425 billion over the next decade.
Continue reading the entire piece here at the Wall Street Journal (paywall)
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Ken Girardin is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute
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