Following the long-awaited launch of Vice President Kamala Harris’s insurance policies seven weeks after she introduced her bid for president, Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (OH) has been among the many social media customers tearing them aside.
“It has been 50 days since Kamala Harris turned the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Social gathering. At the hours of darkness yesterday, she lastly launched her marketing campaign coverage web page. Right here’s what I consider it,” Vance wrote on X on Monday:
In a radical multi-post thread, the Ohio senator slammed Harris’s declare that she would lower taxes for the center class, citing her personal motion because the tie-breaking vote to rent 87,000 IRS brokers to audit extra individuals:
“As not too long ago as final summer season, 63 p.c of latest audits fell [on] taxpayers incomes lower than $200,000,” the Hillbilly Elegy creator wrote.
“It’s even tougher to fake that taxing working women and men isn’t their focus when you consider the reporting requirement Biden-Harris signed into regulation to require companies to fill out a 1099K type on transactions over $600 made utilizing third-party cost platforms,” he added. “The reporting threshold earlier than their invoice was $20,000.”
In line with the senator, the Biden-Harris administration’s tax plan would truly enhance taxes by $5 trillion.
“That’s going to stack on high of her inflationary local weather spending payments and drag the financial system down additional,” he identified earlier than slamming Harris’s different claims, like making an attempt to make homeownership extra attainable whereas letting migrants waltz over the southern border:
Journalist Kyle Becker responded to Vance’s smackdown of the vice chairman’s insurance policies:
“It’s hilarious how Kamala Harris couldn’t inform us her insurance policies for 50 days, however @JDVance pulled an all-nighter and ripped everybody [sic] of her insurance policies to shreds in detailed trend,” the previous Fox Information reporter wrote.
“You determine who is best as presidential or vice presidential materials,” Becker added.
In response to progressive commentator Brian Krassenstein’s declare that Harris’s insurance policies “enchantment to center class America probably the most, as a substitute of firms and billionaires,” Fox Enterprise correspondent Charles Gasparino stated they’re “merely a set of speaking factors that somebody [with] half a mind who served a 12 months on the native metropolis council can rattle off the highest of her head”:
“Proposals have particulars like explaining the revenue cut-off of her ‘center class’ tax lower and so on,” he famous, declaring that Harris has not outlined what “center class” means.
One America Information Community correspondent Monica Paige additionally slammed Harris, saying her initiatives, labeled “A New Manner Ahead,” fall brief as a result of she “stood by Biden and his insurance policies the final 3.5 years”
Yet one more X consumer, Michael Leary, in contrast Harris’s lofty objectives to that of somebody operating for center faculty class president:
“‘Make the college cafeteria serve pizza each day. Make the college flip a water fountain right into a free chocolate milk dispenser.’ Kamala Harris have to be operating for Center Faculty Class President,” he wrote. “[These] aren’t plans or insurance policies, these are obscure speaking factors launched in desperation.”
One other poster identified that the problems web page repeatedly refers to “Trump’s Challenge 2025 Agenda,” which isn’t an initiative that the previous president created or has endorsed:
“7 weeks later Kamala lastly places up her insurance policies. 4 of the hyperlinks on her coverage web page are ‘Trump’s Challenge 2025 Agenda’ which he has personally stated he has no a part of numerous occasions already,” the commenter stated.
“She additionally says the border system is damaged, despite the fact that she’s been in cost as border czar for 4 years… And he or she needs to crack down on misinformation?”
