Kamala Harris is a big Lefty tax-raiser who will lose big time to Trump - Kelvin Mackenzie
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I am already sick and tired of Kamala Harris being painted as a cross between Mother Theresa and our much-loved Queen Elizabeth.
The reality is that, unlike JD Vance, she didn’t grow up in poverty and abuse in Kentucky but in the middle-class splendour of California with two university professors as parents.
You will hear the expression woman of colour a lot in the months ahead. It’s irrelevant. Harris is clever woman who happened to be black. Not the other way round.
As Gerard Baker, the US columnist for The Times says; ‘’ Harris is no tribune of the struggling masses. She is the product of the modern elite.’’
The reason I don’t believe she has a prayer against Trump is not that she’s female, not that she’s an ethnic minority, but that she will be the Democrats most Left-wing nomination. We didn’t elect Corbyn and the US won’t elect Harris.
The Left enjoy spending other people’s money, so it’s worth looking at her views on what taxes should go up. You will note she doesn’t advocate any coming down.
She wants the top rate of tax returning to 39,6% after Trump reduced it to 37%. Another idea was raising inheritance tax to pay for a huge ($13,500!!!) rise for teachers. Where have you heard all this before?
Putting up corporation tax was in her manifesto. She was against Trump’s decision to cut the headline rate to 21% and proposed it go back to 35%. Even Biden only wanted it to go up to 28%.
Harris also described Bernie Sanders proposal to tax capital gains tax at the same rate as income as a ‘’good option.’’ And she wanted an extra 4% tax on all incomes over $100,000. Fortunately, none of these ideas saw the light of day because the Republicans control the House of Representatives.
Perhaps Harris’s most expensive, and dangerous, idea (and comes close to universal basic income) was something called LIFT the Middle Class Act which would give payments of up to $6,000 a year for married couples, although the payments would start to be tapered for childless single couple earning above $50,000 and married couples making over $100,000.
So, you get the drift and you now also understand where Chancellor Rachel Reeves is getting all her ideas from.
She says herself that her earliest memory was being pushed in her buggy on marches by her lefty parents at Berkley. That will scare off a good number working class white and Hispanic voters.
Sherelle Jacobs makes a good point about Harris in her piece on Harris in The Telegraph; ‘’ Someone who crafts her career ‘’as a woman’’ or ‘’person of colour’’ basing their brand on what sets them apart what makes them a special envoy for particular groups will struggle to be universally relatable.
‘’Nor can such a politician wipe from the internet every cringing video of them introducing their pronouns or praising BLM.’’
The only danger I see for Trump is that he loses his temper in a televised debate with Harris. That would be a very bad look. But I imagine he has enough clever advisors to make sure that he doesn’t fall into that trap.
Beyond that, and having lived and worked in the United States, I am certain that a fit and mentally strong Biden would have run Trump a lot closer than Harris. The Left have never, triumphed in the United States. She will not change that direction.