Vice President Kamala Harris finally took questions from the media ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, spewing another one of her freshly prepared word salads.
When asked about the economic plan, Harris failed to outline how her policies would be implemented.
“You unveiled your economic policies last week. Can you explain how you’re going to pay for those, and can you give me an example of what other policies you want to unveil next?” the reporter asked.
“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, and extending the EITC. That is at $6,000 for the first year of a child’s life,” Harris said.
“The return on that investment, in terms of what that will do and what it will pay for will be tremendous,” the vice president added.
Harris then claimed that the Biden-Harris Administration has “reduced child poverty by 50 percent,” but failed to give any specifics on implementing her plan.
“And then what we’re doing in terms of the tax credits, we know that there’s a great return on investment,” Harris continued.
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“And when we increase homeownership in America, what that means in terms of increasing the tax base, not to mention property tax base, what that does to fund schools, again, return on investment,” she said.
“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.”
“When you are strengthening neighborhoods, strengthening communities, and in particular the economy of those communities, and investing in a broad-based economy, everybody benefits, and it pays for itself.”
Harvard economist and former Obama advisor Jason Forman recently said Harris’ proposals are “not sensible.”
“This is not sensible policy, and I think the biggest hope is that it ends up being a lot of rhetoric and no reality,” Forman told the New York Times.
“There’s no upside here, and there is some downside.”
Former President Donald Trump went as far as to compare Harris’ proposals to those of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
“Now, Kamala is reportedly proposing communist price controls. She wants price controls. And if they worked, I’d go along with it too. But they don’t work. They actually have the exact opposite impact and effect,” Trump said during a press conference earlier this week.
“But it leads to food shortages, rationing, hunger, dramatically more inflation. Their Inflation Reduction Act, by the way, was a disaster. It’s what caused the inflation. Their Inflation Reduction Act was a con job.”
“I said, that’s going to cause tremendous inflation, and it did, among other things, like energy. She’s running on the Maduro plan. We call it the Maduro plan, like something straight out of Venezuela or the Soviet Union.”
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