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Kamala Harris unveils populist policy agenda, with $6,000 credit for newborns
The Washington Post ^ | August 16, 2024 at 7:07 a.m. EDT | Jeff Stein and Dan Diamond

Posted on 08/16/2024 7:03:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday unveiled an aggressively populist economic agenda, providing the most detailed vision yet of her governing priorities since becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Ahead of Harris’s speech in North Carolina, her campaign announced her support for more than a dozen economic policies aimed at “lowering costs for American families,” including some that went beyond what President Joe Biden had promised.

The most striking proposals were for the elimination of medical debt for millions of Americans; the “first-ever” ban on price gouging for groceries and food; a cap on prescription drug costs; a $25,000 subsidy for first-time home buyers; and a child tax credit that would provide $6,000 per child to families for the first year of a baby’s life.

The last item followed a suggestion earlier this month from JD Vance, the GOP vice-presidential nominee, that the credit be raised from $2,000 per child to $5,000. Harris is also calling for restoring the Biden administration’s child tax credit that expired at the end of 2021, which raised the benefit for most families from $2,000 per child to $3,000.

The flurry of policy positions — just days before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago — represented the clearest articulation yet of how Harris, who has only had a relatively brief time on the national stage, would handle economic policy if elected this fall. Harris has thus far surrounded herself with many former aides to Biden, and her team had made some overtures to business leaders that they hoped reflected a more centrist approach. But the policy positions she embraced Friday suggest she will continue, if not deepen, the party’s transformation under Biden, who pushed for more aggressive government intervention in the economy on industrial, labor and antitrust policies.

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: pricecontrols; pricegauging; pricegouging
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1 posted on 08/16/2024 7:03:54 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump/Vance - We propose X

Kamablah - We propose that too!

Media - Trump is copycatting Kamala...that’s racist and sexist!


2 posted on 08/16/2024 7:08:06 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Redistribute all the wealth!


3 posted on 08/16/2024 7:08:18 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: HombreSecreto

Vance giving a number was never a good idea but whatever, this plan is just socialism. Free money for everyone, no need to generate any revenue.


4 posted on 08/16/2024 7:09:05 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ain’t Communism wonderful?


5 posted on 08/16/2024 7:10:44 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

$7,000 if you kill it.


6 posted on 08/16/2024 7:11:35 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: wiseprince

I think there’s a no win on that one.

Give a number, they attack the number.

Don’t give a number, they attack lack of specifics.


7 posted on 08/16/2024 7:11:45 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: HombreSecreto

The issue here is that Democrats (some anyway) hate the family. Whether it is murdering a viable baby to encouraging unwed pregnancies through welfare to not notifying parents that their daughter might have been raped and then is considering abortion, to allowing the school system to butcher children without notifying parents....

And the make pretend families with chest feeding because a dude in a homosexual relationship is not a woman.


8 posted on 08/16/2024 7:14:15 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One number should tell everyone the story...

$35,000,000,000,000

5.56mm


9 posted on 08/16/2024 7:15:09 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: dhs12345

Don’t be shocked when this “credit” is targeted for illegals.

They wish to incentivize the “right” kids - their future slaves.


10 posted on 08/16/2024 7:16:05 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: HombreSecreto

Do they have to be citizens, and do they have to be married?


11 posted on 08/16/2024 7:18:39 AM PDT by goodnesswins (DEI....Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate.....OR ......Didn't Earn It)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

President Trump can show the absurdity of KwikKopy Kamala’s campaign strategy by out-bidding each of her “offers”

For example, “The TRUMP Plan is to announce a child tax credit that would provide $6,001 per child to families for the first year of a baby’s life.

Kamala, do I hear 6,002?”


12 posted on 08/16/2024 7:19:39 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: goodnesswins

Don’t know - I would like to think that married parents would be those eligible!


13 posted on 08/16/2024 7:20:14 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: HombreSecreto

Married in married to each other, LOL!


14 posted on 08/16/2024 7:20:49 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What’s next? A payment to mothers for every child they abort?


15 posted on 08/16/2024 7:21:01 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The economy is so bad right now that even Joe Biden's job is being outsourced to an Indian.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

is populism popular now?


16 posted on 08/16/2024 7:22:52 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats are great about giving away other people’s money.

Whatever happened to working hard and getting an education and sacrificing so that you could get ahead?

You could take pride in that.

How can anyone be proud of standing around bleating like sheep with their hands out to get money stolen by Democrat politicians?

“Well, grandson, your old granddad could sure stand around with his hand out begging for stolen money. Be sure to tell your kids about that.”


17 posted on 08/16/2024 7:23:52 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: HombreSecreto

Yup. That is the ultimate goal.

So the question will be — what will the new America look like? The America that the leftists are trying to create after they destroy the current America. I don’t if we can call it America anymore.

The constitution and bill of rights will be gone and America will regress into a sh!thole country that is the norm in all of human history. Slavery, you own nothing, massive oppression, wars, famine... hey kinds sounds like the Book Of Revelation.


18 posted on 08/16/2024 7:24:26 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: HombreSecreto

emhoff’s nanny qualifies?


19 posted on 08/16/2024 7:24:46 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: HombreSecreto

Exactly.


20 posted on 08/16/2024 7:25:46 AM PDT by dforest
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