Yang: America Runs on Almighty Dollar, Not Doing the Right Thing

Wednesday on CNN Climate Town Hall, Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang said “this country runs on the almighty dollar. It does not run on doing the right thing by us or the planet.”

Yang said, “I do support a carbon tax — you went to my website, Wolf, you would know this. we need to have polluters internalize the cost. So you start at $40 a ton and then $100 a ton to give them time to adjust. These companies only operate on the bottom line. You cannot say do the right thing and then have all the executives get paid for making tons of money at the expense of the earth. So what you have to do, you have to tie these things together. This is the theme of my campaign. This country runs on the almighty dollar. It does not run on doing the right thing by us or the planet. So we have to tie people’s incentives to doing the right thing and then you will see the behavior change.”

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