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The center-right nationally is properly outraged by the taxes and false promises of the Waxman-Markey bill which barely passed the House last Friday.

And Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell had commendably denounced the measure - - calling it a “job killer.”

“‘It would hurt Virginia’s competitiveness in the world economy, raise our electricity rates and have a direct impact on every Virginia citizen. It’s a job-killer,’ McDonnell said in a statement. ‘The…legislation under consideration is exactly the wrong approach to take. It is a heavy-handed big government approach based on ideology, not science.’”

Yet the former Attorney General has been proposing his own “green jobs zone” here’

Favored-Business Friendly — or Taxpayer Friendly?

The respected Beacon Hill Institute last week went to the heart of the matter in “Green Jobs a Cost, Not Benefit, to the National Economy”

“If the green job is a net benefit it has to be because the value the job produces for consumers is greater than the cost of performing the job. This argument is never made in any of these three green jobs studies.”

The Chilling Effect has written a useful guide entitled “7 Green Jobs Myths” –

“By promoting more jobs instead of more productivity, the green jobs described in the literature actually encourage low-paying jobs in less desirable conditions. Economic growth cannot be ordered by Congress or by the United Nations. Government interference in the economy – such as restricting further progress with already successful technologies in favor of speculative technologies favored by special interests – will generate stagnation.”

Read the entire guide here.

So perhaps Bob McDonnell could explain, in free-market terms, the economics of his “green jobs zone” proposal here and how it will help Virginia taxpayers, and independent Virginia businesses across the board? 

Does anyone believe that such a program, once enacted, would not continue to grow? And not link into similar Obama Administration subsidies?

“We will make Virginia a green jobs zone to encourage green energy entrepreneurs to protect our environment, while creating good jobs.” (Underscoring Forum’s throughout.)

Let’s use our Tea Parties to urge candidate McDonnell to come to a better mind by rethinking his “green jobs zone” proposal.

One would hate to believe the “green jobs zone” was, to use McDonnell’s own words, “based on ideology, not science.”

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