Waxman-Markey Climate Change Bill Knocks 1% off GDP... After 2040

Dakota War College cites Sarah Palin on cap-and-trade. We could take the posting as PP's endorsement of Palin as an economics expert, although PP conspicuously avoids making such a statement explicitly.

I'm still not wholly convinced that the pending energy security legislation is a good idea. However, on the economic argument, anyone who says ACESA is a bad idea because Sarah Palin says so needs a stern talking-to. Such intellectual zombies also need to read this analysis and see this chart:

See that little orange stripe at the top? That's the EPA's medium-run projection of the impact of the Waxman-Markey bill on America's Gross Domestic Product, a decline that doesn't knock even 1% off the GDP for at least thirty years. That's the net adverse effect that Palin says would destroy the American economy.

Don't you just hate how lame duck governors sit around behind their desks drawing a paycheck, having fun, and practicing for their book deals by writing bogus op-eds for elite East Coast newspapers?