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[–] abracaDavid@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you forgetting that she was in office when she said she was going to make a ceasefire? Why didn't she do it then? Where was that?

And show me her plan to tax the rich. She is a blatantly pro corporate candidate.

And they just threw the weed thing in there at the end because it was becoming very obvious that her platform was massively unpopular. She famously was super hard on people being arrested for marijuana charges when she was a prosecutor.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

She is still Vice President, not President, but they have on multiple occasions attempted to coerce a ceasefire, sometimes escalating to Biden swearing at Netanyahu over the phone.

Compared to the Trump Plan of writing Israel a Blank Check. Hell, they've literally already supported a single state solution under his previous admin when he put his son in law Jared Kushner in charge of the situation.

You can read more about Kamala Harris' tax plans HERE

Vice President Harris and Governor Walz believe that working families deserve a break. That’s why under their plan more than 100 million working and middle-class Americans will get a tax cut. They will do this by restoring two tax cuts designed to help middle class and working Americans: the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Through these two programs, millions of Americans get to keep more of their hard-earned income. They will also expand the Child Tax Credit to provide a $6,000 tax cut to families with newborn children. They believe no child in America should live in poverty, and these actions would have a historic impact.

Unlike Donald Trump, Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are committed to ensuring no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in taxes. They believe that we need to chart a New Way Forward by both making our tax system fairer and prioritizing investment and innovation. They will ensure the wealthiest Americans and the largest corporations pay their fair share, so we can take action to build up the middle class while reducing the deficit. This includes rolling back Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, enacting a billionaire minimum tax, quadrupling the tax on stock buybacks, and other reforms to ensure the very wealthy are playing by the same rules as the middle class. Under her plan, the tax rate on long-term capital gains for those earning a million dollars a year or more will be 28 percent, because when the government encourages investment, it leads to broad-based economic growth and creates jobs, which makes our economy stronger.

She has also floated uncapping social security taxes so top earners would pay more, and also introducing a unrealized capital gains tax on large amounts.

Thinking that Kamala was the Corporate Candidate is absolutely asinine, but it's also got some truth to it as literally everyone except the richest Americans will suffer as a result of the Trump Admin. The fact that you can even compare the two means you knew absolutely nothing about how Trump cut taxes for the rich in 2017 and raised it on the lowest earning brackets.

[–] abracaDavid@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you familiar with the term "political theater"?

It's where a politician says one thing and makes a big show about something, and then does the opposite.

Why would anyone be scared of the geriatric lame duck president yelling at them?

And why didn't this administration reverse Trump's tax cuts for the rich or actually do a damn thing about it?

You're being lied to and you're believing it.

And Kamala is so pro corporate that she is one of the biggest and most effective proponents of California's prisoner slave labor.

Who do you think it's using this prison labor? Who is the beneficiary of not having to pay their workers?? Could it possibly be the giant corporations that run American???

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Are you familiar with the fact that Trump literally cut taxes for the rich, raised the federal deficit, and raised taxes on the lowest earners? Thats not theatre, that literally happened. You have a party that at least promises to make lives better and a party that literally will make lives worse with a proven record, and you helped elect the latter like a fuckin moron.

You want to talk about benefiting off of Criminal Labor? Biden pardoned hundreds of Marijuana convictions one at a time and made it so that future nonviolent possession convictions of the same nature don't happen.

Removing a tax plan that hasn't expired would take a 2/3rds vote from the senate, DNC never had more than 48.