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Kamala Harris delivers word salad about 'investments' to reporter who asked her how she'd finance her spendathon
American Thinker ^ | 19 Aug, 2024 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 08/19/2024 9:25:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber

When you've got markets swooning, the price of gold hitting record highs, and skeptical reporters asking you about your communism-mimicking economic plan, maybe you should have some prepared explanations for the questions that arise.

Kamala Harris didn't.

Here's her response to a CNN reporter's question about how she plans to "pay for" all her big spending plans:

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg NEW: Kamala Harris struggles to answer after a reporter asks her about her economic policy, says “return on investment” four times.

Reporter: Can you explain how you're gonna pay for your policies?

Harris: Well, I mean, you just look at it in terms of what we are talking about, for example, around children and the child tax credit… it's at $6,000 for the first year of a a child's life.

The return on that investment in terms of what that will do and what it will pay for will be tremendous…

And then what we're doing in terms of the tax credits, we know that there's a great return on investment and when we increase home ownership in America…

What that does to fund schools, again, return on investment…

I think it's a mistake for any person who talks about public policy to not critically evaluate how you measure the return on investment…

She ignored the question about paying for it, had no idea of what she was talking about and could only use the buzzword "investments" four times in her babbly, off-the-cuff response to questions about her plans to shovel out government cash, which will add a monstrous amount to the already unsustainable $35 trillion national debt.

What do you do when you are in economic trouble? According to her, you whip out the government credit card. You let the other guy worry about "paying for it."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: centralplanning; classwarfare; economy; kamala; kommiekamala; marxism; pricecontrols; wordsalad
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To: Qwapisking

Way out in San Francisco
Where the blue haired ladies rave and rant
Lived a cunning whore, who was such a bore
She made the blue hairs sound intelligent

Word Salad Kami, Word Salad Kami

Everybody said it didn’t make sense
‘Cause at least her momma was an academic

Stupid ass woman


21 posted on 08/19/2024 10:43:28 AM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: MtnClimber

When asked to a Democrat/Liberal, the answer to the question “How will you pay for it?” is most likely “Tax increases aka tax gouging.”


22 posted on 08/19/2024 10:55:07 AM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (Every time I hear the word, “progressive” I think “Cancer is a progressive disease.”)
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats Investment rally means higher taxes on the middle class for more handouts for votes.


23 posted on 08/19/2024 10:56:28 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber
Kamala plagerism once again:

dateline 2017 - Trump signs $2K child tax credit law, double the original $1k

dateline 2024 - Trump/Vance campaign proposes an increase to $5K per child tax credit up to age 17

now Kamala proposes "...$6,000 for the first year of a child's life."

"Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, says he wants to boost the Child Tax Credit to $5,000 per child from its current $2,000 — an effort that could add trillions in federal spending, according to policy experts.

"I'd love to see a child tax credit that's $5,000 per child," Vance said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Sunday. "President Trump has been on the record for a long time supporting a bigger child tax credit..."

watch how the MSM downplays the cost in articles about Kamala's plan after already trashing the Trump proposal

24 posted on 08/19/2024 11:06:49 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: MtnClimber

The reason communism has failed is because people failed to embrace it.

Jane Fonda

Yeah that’s the ticket
Democrat Party


25 posted on 08/19/2024 11:35:25 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber
Kamala must be black because this is how many blacks talk - a lot of words but absolutely no point to what is being said.
26 posted on 08/19/2024 11:37:05 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Where is the vaunted Q team?)
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To: MtnClimber

Gee,a Democrat calling spending “investment.“. How novel, they’ve only been doing it since the Clinton administration. And it is just as much a bunch of BS as it was then. But Commie Kamala couldn’t find her rear end with both hands, let alone know anything whatsoever about finance and economics.

We are so completely screwed if this mindless whore becomes President.


27 posted on 08/19/2024 4:01:10 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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