2019 Town Hall: on Homeland Security

Andrew Yang: Military dumps oil at end of year, to avoid losing budget

Now, why is he doing that? Because they have to use all the oil that's budgeted, or else they won't get the same amount budgeted the following year.

So this broke my heart to even hear this story. We have to take some of that $750 billion and start channeling it towards our infrastructure.

We know we need to make our infrastructure more sustainable over time. Right now, there are hundreds of billions being spent on our military that is generating a ton of emissions and pollution. And so if we take a significant portion of that budget and channel it towards infrastructure, we can make a good out of right now a huge net negative.

Bernie Sanders: Cut military spending to pay for fixing climate change

SANDERS: We have a moral responsibility to act boldly, and to do that, yes, it is going to be expensive. This is how we get the money.

1. Insanely, right now we are giving the fossil fuel industry approximately $400 billion every single year in subsidies and tax breaks. Obviously, we end that.
2. We believe that the federal government is the best way to move aggressively to produce sustainable energy, like wind and solar. We will expand public power concepts like the TVA.
3. We are not going to have to spend money on the military defending oil interests around the world. We can cut military spending there, as well.
4. Our program will create up to 20 million good- paying jobs over the period of the 15 years. And when we do that, you're going to have a lot of taxpayers out there who will be paying more in taxes