• flipht@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Trees are expensive, and planting trees means you can hire workers to perform back breaking work for little pay. It’s surprising that republicans are just now realizing that they can grift this to hell and back.

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      1 year ago

      Most trees are not expensive if you plant them from seed or buy them as a small sapling.

      Source: I buy/grow a lot of trees and browse a lot of nurseries.

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        1 year ago

        Sure. But whatever cost it is times a trillion is a lot, and there’s a multiplicative effect. The value of the trees will compound over time, and very likely private entities will be able to harvest those trees for sale. A non zero amount of any proceeds will eventually make their way into politicians’ donations.