The rebooted version of Kamala Harris has shown that the Democrat nominee isn’t only a chameleon but also a thief, freely taking ideas from former President Donald J. Trump and using them as her own.
Harris’s big rollout of her economic policies took place on Friday and her speech in Raleigh, N.C. was covered by Fox News with anchors Bret Baier and Gillian Turner breaking it down for the conservative network’s viewers.
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“It was a progressive pitch, and what we saw today from the vice president is not just a stark policy contrast with the plans laid out by former President Trump, but a stark vision of a wildly different economic reality and just reality in general,” Turner said, critiquing the speech.
“She took care to point out today that she sees the supply chain issues that started plaguing this country during COVID is largely, if not completely, fixed. She said it’s all better now,” she added. “Two days ago, we heard the former president talk about how he sees them as being worse than ever.”
“Yeah, there’s a disconnect there, too, also, when she talks about former President Trump’s plans to raise taxes, that’s not what he’s talking about,” Baier responded. “He’s talking about tariffs on, other countries, and their products coming in here so that the U.S. succeeds. I do need to give the vice president credit and the administration credit, for the negotiation on pharma and drug prices.”
“But again, there is this dance of getting away from Bidenomics, creating her own vision and yet accepting some of the positives of that she wants to claim as the strongest economy in the world. So I think we’re going to see a lot of this in Chicago next week,” he added, referring to the Democratic National Convention where Harris is set to be coronated.
Baier also remarked on Harris’s proposal to impose what amounts to price controls, which have only brought economic misery to other countries when implemented.
“Other countries have tried it. It didn’t work. So how it’s implemented, again, to Jason Furman’s point, you got to go through Congress and it just might not be realistic,” he said, referring to the Obama economist who ripped her “price gouging” ban.
“The other thing, it’s striking to hear the vice president talk about cutting red tape and cutting regulations. I mean, that, again, is taking from former President Trump’s speech, and it’s tough to imagine that the person in 2019 who wanted to ban fracking and ban plastic straws is now going to be the champion of cutting red tape and cutting regulations,” he added, noting that Harris is taking Trump’s ideas and presenting them as her own.
During her big speech, Harris also borrowed from Republicans by pledging to “cut taxes” for tens of millions of Americans in the form of expanded tax credits, including the child tax credit, days after GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) supported it.
“Finally, there’s one more way I will help families deal with rising costs, and that’s by letting you keep more of your hard-earned money,” she said. “Under my plan, more than 100 million Americans will get a tax cut and we will do this by restoring two tax cuts designed to help middle-class and working Americans — the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit.”
“Millions of Americans with children get to keep more of their hard-earned income,” the veep added. “We know this works and has a direct impact on so many issues, including child poverty. We know it works. So as president, I’ll not only restore that tax cut but expand it. We will provide $6,000 in tax relief to families during the first year of a child’s life.”
Trump and others have likened Harris’s proposals – the ones that she didn’t steal from him – to communism.
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