ATLANTA – President Joe Biden is standing aside and pushing his No. 2 forward as his preferred candidate for president. Kamala Harris’ political stances get little definition from her time as vice president – a position described as “not worth a bucket of warm spit” by a previous vice president.
It’s not a knock on Harris. That’s political reality.
“It is only natural that Joe Biden is trying to promote his vice president to the top of the ticket,” says Chase Oliver, Libertarian candidate for president. “After all, it was Biden’s ’94 crime bill that made Harris’ political career possible.”
Despite Biden and Harris claiming that they advocated lenient rules for clemency, neither put them into action. Hardly surprising, given that they built their political careers upon being tough on criminals to the point of cruelty, and with disparate impact on minorities and the poor, giving even nonviolent offenders no quarter. Harris denied inmates rightful parole until California forced her to stop.
During her tenure as California’s Attorney General, Harris advocated that parents be treated as criminals if their children were chronically truant. She twisted a connection – a link between youthful truancy and adult criminality – into a sign of destiny, ignoring that there’s also a correlation between jailed or imprisoned parents and truancy. Incarcerating parents could worsen the problem, presuming the action is fair – and it’s not.
Our national debt – estimated to be $34.9 trillion and growing – threatens to destroy the country, yet Biden obliviously put forth a $396 billion climate-action law, a part of his Build Back Better initiative. Harris outdid him with a $10 trillion climate plan and supported the Green New Deal – plans that will do more to shore up the finances of grifting and connected businesses rather than workable solutions that will sustainably improve the environment.
Speaking of spending that already is on an unsustainable trajectory, Harris advocated in 2020 for expanding from the current insurance system to a single-payer system within 10 years, with all private insurers being regulated by Medicare, similar to Medicare Advantage. This program cost taxpayers an additional $9 billion in 2019 due to fraudulent diagnoses – caps on customer spending created perverse incentives to put more severe diagnoses on patients to get larger payments from the government.
Also in 2020, Harris proposed making all public colleges free for those with incomes of less than $125,000. She claimed that the program would require no new taxes and could be funded by a fee on Wall Street firms at 0.5% per stock trade, 0.1% fee on bonds, and a 0.005% fee on derivatives. Adopted from Bernie Sanders, this plan over a decade would steal an estimated $2.4 trillion not just from investors, but retirement and pension funds, small businesses and more.
Harris might have gotten little to do as vice president. It’s better that she does not get to implement what she’s actually done and run on in the past.
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