Kamala’s economic plan is about to drop, and high prices are here to stay
by Liz Peek, opinion contributor - 08/16/24 10:00 AM ET
Kamala Harris will soon reveal her economic plan. It’s about time.
The fill-in-the-blanks Democratic nominee for president has come a long way on so-called “vibes” and the fact that she isn’t Joe Biden. But eventually voters will want to know what the vice president wants to do with the economy, their number one issue.
Expect Harris, bride-like, to bring something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.
The “old” part is the trickiest. When asked recently how Harris is scrambling to distance herself from unpopular Bidenomics, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre sarcastically reminded the press corps, “You do know that it is the Biden–Harris administration, right?” and that “Kamala Harris is the Vice President?”
The new part? Even more giveaways of taxpayer dollars to social programs. We could soon see something like Babysitting for All as a means to reduce the high cost of child care.
What’s borrowed? In her ambition to put the government in charge of an ever-bigger slice of the economic pie, Harris could look to her father, described by The Economist as a “Marxist” economist. Or maybe she is under the spell of her running mate, progressive Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is much loved by the Democratic Socialists of America.
Weirdly, she has also borrowed from Donald Trump, lifting his new “No Taxes on Tips” pledge without batting an eye, right there in toss-up Nevada, where the former president first introduced the idea.
She has also taken a leaf from Biden’s playbook, vowing to attack inflation (voters’ biggest peeve) by imposing a national ban on “corporate price gouging,” which she blames for driving prices higher.
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https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4830740-kamala-harris-economic-plan/
