Frank wrote on Jul 23
rd, 2024 at 2:20pm:
So mark her down as endorsing the spending blowouts that caused inflation, the Green New Deal, entitlement expansions and student loan forgiveness. Until she says otherwise, we should also assume she’s in favour of Mr. Biden’s $5 trillion tax increase in 2025.
So say the flat earth economists at the WSJ.
As if Trump's tax reductions for the wealthy don't also result in spending blowouts and increased governement debt.
Covid proved the government can create money out of thin air; but instead of paying for necessities in kind (food, housing , utilities) the government borrowed the money and gave it to laid-off workers in money - some of which resulted in increased purchasing power in the face of supply problems (caused by the pandemic and war).
Ignorant, self-interested WSJ nonsense.
Quote:Liberal economists panned the subsidy because it would drive up rents.
So how DO you
drive down rents?
Quote:She co-sponsored legislation with Bernie Sanders that would pay tuition at four-year public colleges for students from families making up to $125,000. This is more honest than the Administration’s back-end student loan cancellation. But it would cost $700 billion over a decade and encourage colleges to increase tuition.
Yes; courtesy of flat earth mainstream economics which demands currency-issuing governments borrow money from the private sector.
Quote:Another Bernie mind-meld: Single-payer healthcare. Ms. Harris co-sponsored his Medicare for All legislation paid for by higher income taxes.
Ah...the "higher taxes" bogey man (even on the wealthy...)
Quote: But it would still put government in charge of all American healthcare over time.
And the problem with that is.......?
Quote:In 2019 she endorsed a nationwide ban on oil and gas fracking,
Note: if AGW-CO2 is real, this is a necessary policy, no ifs or buts.
Quote: Does she agree with Mr. Biden’s mooted plan to endorse “reforms” to the High Court that would make the Justices subject to Congressional supervision?
Sounds reasonable, since conservative judges are often insane.....(just sayin'....).
Quote:Mr Biden famously put Ms. Harris in charge of border policy, and we know how that has turned out.
Generosity for desperate people not allowed? Such is the morality of our sick 'survival of the fittest' world.
Quote:Rather than push for border policy changes, her first instinct was to blame the rush of migrants on “root causes” in developing countries, including corruption, violence, poverty and “lack of climate adaptation and climate resilience.”
In other words, she is looking at causes - something 'survival of the fittest' conservatives don't do.
Quote:she has equivocated about support for Israel.
No kidding; Israel - currently facing charges of genocide at the ICJ.....
Quote:The killing chastened Iran’s rulers instead, at least until the Biden Administration began to ease sanctions and tried to repeat the 2015 nuclear deal.
The sanctions themselves crippled innocent Iranians - a conservative specialty, as noted above.