Staff Reports
Vice President Kamala Harris took a break from her primary role of masquerading as the voice of progressive wisdom on Wednesday to throw shade at former President Donald Trump’s economic strategies. During a chit-chat on MSNBC with anchor Stephanie Ruhle, Harris confidently declared that Trump’s policies would take America on a one-way ticket to recession city. She’s been busy pitching her own economic blueprint to voters, which appears to consist of raising taxes and hoping that works out for everyone.
Harris apparently has no qualms about raising taxes, which is a favorite pastime of the left. In the very same interview, she was candid about needing to hike those corporate tax rates to fund her extensive domestic agenda – also known as the federal spending spree. The proposal? A delightful jump from 21% to a purse-stretching 28%. It seems that the Vice President is all too eager to ensure that entrepreneurs and corporations are paying what she calls their “fair share,” which, in her mind, translates to more money flowing into government coffers.
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When Harris was confronted with the inconvenient reality of Trump’s higher economic approval ratings among voters – a testament to his overall effectiveness in the Oval Office – she had a colorful rebuttal. With all the confidence of a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, she asserted that Trump’s return to power would result in an economy “shrinking” faster than a cheap sweater washed in hot water. According to her, the jobs lost during Trump’s presidency—like the 200,000 manufacturing jobs she mentioned—are all a part of the larger narrative of impending doom.
The Vice President also made headlines when she invoked the renowned “top economists” who, according to her, are lining up to compare her proposals with Trump’s, only to conclude that Trump’s approach would indeed lead America straight into the heart of rising inflation and economic slowdown. While she didn’t name anything beyond “some of them,” there’s something quaint about her expectation that people should take the word of mysterious economists over empirical evidence.
Harris concluded her campaign of fearmongering by indicating that her buddies in the corporate world—those CEOs and business leaders who are, in theory, gazing at her with adoration—also agree that the rich need to cough up more cash. It’s surprising that they aren’t sending her flowers for such a generous outlook on their finances. The so-called “engine” of America’s economy must be functioning under a different definition given that more money from the folks who create jobs is promptly funneled into the government’s obscenely large furnace of spending. It’s hard not to chuckle at the notion that tax increases will result in an economic boom. If only!
