It's been nearly two months since Kamala Harris came in as the relief candidate for the Democrats, and she has finally decided to put some policies on her campaign website.
We've been waiting anxiously for this moment, so without further ado, here's what her platform looks like.
I'm going to let JD Vance respond to these, as he put out a response thread on X yesterday.
Kamala Harris claims she wants to cut taxes for middle class families, but here's what's in her plan:
IRS Audits for working families: Getting audited is a horrendous experience, even if you've done nothing wrong. Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to hire 87,000 IRS agents to audit more people. As recently as last summer, 63% of new audits fell taxpayers earning less than $200,000 …
It's even harder to pretend that taxing working men and women isn't their focus when you think about the reporting requirement Biden-Harris signed into law to require businesses to fill out a 1099K form on transactions over $600 made using third-party payment platforms. The reporting threshold before their bill was $20,000 …
The Biden-Harris tax plan, as explicitly outlined in their formal budget request to Congress would increase taxes by $5 trillion. That's going to stack on top of her inflationary climate spending bills and drag the economy down further. It's been estimated that 'the tax changes in the Biden-Harris budget would reduce long-run GDP by 1.6 percent…wages by 1.1 percent, and employment by about 666,000 full-time equivalent jobs.'
That's nearly a million people out of work and lower wages for everyone in order to shift money towards the Harris Green New Deal.
Moving on to housing.
And our future VP's response:
Kamala wants to give every first time homebuyer a $25,000 check toward downpayment assistance. What she fails to leave out is that this would likely raise the average home price by the same amount, making her plan moot. We also haven't heard how the debt-burdened federal government would pay for such a plan …
There's also no guarantee that this down payment assistance will be limited to citizens. The campaign has yet to lay out what requirements there will be, beyond being a first time homebuyer and having a two year history of rental payments …
Vice President Harris also mentions how she'll spur the construction of ‘3 million more rental units.' While she outlines an admirable plan, it's tough to take it seriously. This Vice President has overseen an administration that has enacted new red tape for multi-family and single-family construction. We've seen her Housing and Urban Development Department enact green energy requirements for new rental units, mandatory strictly-cosmetic updates to public housing units, and more regulations that will make it harder to grow the rental supply.
That's not the end of it. The Vice President seems to think that the ongoing housing crisis is strictly due to a supply problem, but it's not. Her policies have also driven demand for housing through the roof, particularly when looking at the price and availability of rental units …
When a city's immigrant population increases, the area's home prices and rental costs rise by a comparable amount. But the effects vary by neighborhood: home values are negatively correlated with the immigrant concentration. The result: only current homeowners in non-immigrant, wealthy neighborhoods stand to benefit from mass immigration. Working-class residents see their rental costs soar, and their home values decline.
Get ready for the "price gouging in housing" talk from Kamala if she takes the presidency.
More policy from VP Harris incoming:
And JD Vance's response:
Vice President Harris claims she'll ‘take on the everyday obstacles and red tape that can make it harder to grow a small business.'
However, under her administration, the SEC has promulgated at least 47 rulemakings, the majority of which have not been mandated by Congress, and we've seen Treasury enact burdensome compliance regulations, with some even aimed at small businesses, like the Administration's preferred implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act.
This doesn't sound like cutting red tape to me. It sounds like the opposite: enacting overbearing regulations that stifle innovation and kill job creation.
The Democrats are trying to hide from their record as heavy regulators. We will not allow them to deceive the American people.
Now to education:
JD Vance, what say you?
Fewer than one-in-five American students goes smoothly from high school to college to a career that uses their degree.
Kamala Harris doesn't want to address these problems. Instead, she wants to double down on the failures of our education system. She wants taxpayers to write off more student loans, to increase subsidies that will only drive up tuition costs, and to send even more money to some of the worst-performing universities in the country.
You know what they say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Well, it's broke, so…
Here's Kamala on childcare:
And Vance's response:
[T]he best indication [of what this policy entails] would be the national childcare plan that she's already laid out with President Biden as par of their 'Build Back Better' plan. We all know how those policies turned out: skyrocketing inflation.
But the childcare provisions of their plan were so extreme that not even a Democrat-controlled Congress could pass them. They wouldn't have worked for many American families.
Most parents who use a paid childcare center say they prefer a faith-based provider. What would Harris's plan do for them? Nothing. Childcare providers based in a house of worship would have been excluded from funding opportunities. Other faith-based providers would be subject to additional regulations in order to access funding that might not have been able to meet.
Many parents prefer to stay at home with a young child or have a loved-one watch them. Would Harris's plan support these families? Not at all. Her proposal was only supports childcare centers and would offer no support to families that prefer not to send their children to daycare.
Policy number six: Energy and Climate.
The counter punch:
CBS News reported earlier this month that the cost of electricity has increased more than 28.5 percent since 2019, with the average American now paying nearly $300 each month just in utilities. These higher costs can be attributed to a shrinking supply of American electricity. More specifically, Harris's environmental policies have shuttered reliable coal power plants, slowed the approval of new natural gas plants and failed to enact permitting reform for American generation and transmission infrastructure. Instead, they have placed an increasing burden on less reliable sources of energy, such as solar and wind. These renewable sources are more dependent on conducive weather than coal and gas plants, which means they are most prone to failure exactly when Americans are most reliant on electricity to do things like heat their homes. Kamala's energy policies are making Americans poorer and more vulnerable to extreme weather.
As for the ‘new green energy economy,' let us look at the [Inflation Reduction Act's] effort to make American roads more conducive to electric vehicles. The IRA allocated $7.5 billion to build new EV charging stations along highways. In the almost two years since the IRA became law, the Biden-Harris administration has built just eight charging stations. This program is part of the wider Harris push to replace gas-powered cars with EVs, which has also fizzled …
Kamala Harris also pledges to advance ‘environmental justice' and pays fealty to international climate agreements. At best, the policies spawned by progressive and foreign ideologues will go the way of the EV push: billions of tax dollars wasted with American energy and auto workers left with uncertain futures. At worst, Kamala's climate policies will increase energy costs for all Americans, degrade their standard of living with new climate mandates, leave them vulnerable to dangerous weather and make America a worse place to live.
Get ready for the climate hysteria to skyrocket under a Harris administration.
Let's look at Kamala Harris's border policy, because this one is just peachy.
And this is my favorite of Vance's rebuttals, because we all know she was Biden's border czar.
Kamala Harris then claims to have supported a bipartisan border security bill that would have deployed more agents and drug scanners. I believe she is referring to Sen. Chris Murphy's Border Act of 2024 (S.4361). What she won't tell you is that the bill also codifies catch-and-release, allows up to 1.8 million illegals to enter before the border could be closed, gives billions of taxpayer dollars to the same NGOs that are driving the invasion and expands the executive parole powers used by Biden instead of limiting them. The bill's author Sen. Murphy put it best when he admitted that, under his bill, "the border never closes." I think all of that is totally unacceptable when our nation is facing a historic border crisis, which is why I and my Republican colleagues opposed it. Kamala Harris should have instead pushed for a standalone vote on new border agents and scanners.
Kamala Harris also brags that, thanks to her efforts, border crossings are currently at 4-year lows. It is worth remembering that almost four years ago, on their first day in office, Biden and Harris issued executive orders that stopped border wall construction and stopped deportations. They then rescinded Trump's Remain In Mexico policy, allowing every migrant with a dubious asylum claim to enter America while waiting in an years-long case backlog. As a direct result of these actions, America endured consecutive months record-breaking illegal immigration. Only once their Border Act was rejected, and border security consistently polled as a top concern of voters, did Biden and Harris issue orders that give the appearance that they care about illegal border crossings …
But the most destructive part of the Kamala Harris border plan is where she says that she wants to give her 8.5+ million illegal aliens an 'earned pathway to citizenship,' which means rewarding illegal aliens with amnesty and the right to vote in our next election. Promising amnesty and citizenship will create a gigantic magnet for illegal immigration that will entice people around the world to race across our borders.
If there's a takeaway from this section, it's that Kamala opened our borders to 8.5+ million illegal aliens, lied about it for almost four years, blamed others when she got caught and now wants to reward those illegals with citizenship.
And let's not forget Kamala's record out in California.
Harris touts her record prosecuting international criminals as California's Attorney General. One of the reasons why California has so much migrant crime is because it is a sanctuary state that shields illegal aliens from deportation. Hence foreign criminals feel more protected in California. Another thing Attorney General Harris did as California's AG was write a 2015 letter to the US Senate defending California's sanctuary state policies and opposing a bill that would penalize the state's noncooperation with federal immigration law. It is safe to assume that there would have been a lot fewer migrant criminals to prosecute in California if the state and AG Kamala had allowed ICE agents to do their jobs and deport them.
You can't run from your record, Kamala!
Okay, last policy: Veterans.
And here's JD Vance — a veteran himself — with the response:
Right from the beginning, Biden and Harris charted a bad course, putting U.S. soldiers in harm's way. In Afghanistan, as the situation turned chaotic in 2021, a lot more could and should have been done to keep our people safe. People on the ground warned Biden and Harris - through a dissent channel cable - that the situation would get chaotic. The administration didn't listen. And so when the time came to move our people out of Kabul, we ended up running the operation out of Kabul's own airport, right in the city. It was chaos, and ISIS terrorists exploited that chaos to murder 13 U.S. service members at Abbey Gate on August 26, 2021 …
The same mistakes that led to our losing people at Abbey Gate were repeated again and again and again. At Tower 22 in Jordan on January 28, 2024, we lost three service members to a drone launched by an Iran-backed militia. Different time, different place, different enemy - but a lot of the same mistakes. By that time, our forces had been under fire in Syria and Iraq dozens, hundreds of times since October 7 - and we weren't shooting back. The situation was chaotic, we weren't in control, it was only a matter of time before our people paid the price.
Take your pick of military operations under this administration - from the pier to nowhere in Gaza to the Red Sea operation against Houthi militants, the common thread running through them is our soldiers get thrown into situations where they are sitting ducks, where they very often come to serious harm, with no serious thought given to how we're going to get the other side to stop shooting at us.
Here's one that JD Vance missed:
"Freedom to live safe from gun violence."
Ladies and gentlemen, you tell me what you think that means. Because to me it means more gun regulations, buy-back programs, and background checks. This is "progress" toward the outright ban of guns. I'm not being hyperbolic.
(And FYI you can never be safe from gun violence if the government that forcibly collects taxes from you has all the guns.)
So there you have it, folks. Kamala Harris's policy positions picked apart by Vance like a raven picks apart carrion. It's not hard, and this evening at the debate we can only expect Donald Trump to do the same.
And I'm very much looking forward to that!
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