Kamala Harris’s inflation ‘solution’: Nixon’s price controls and Trump’s tax policy

Published August 16, 2024 12:06pm ET



While President Joe Biden gave Vice President Kamala Harris a short enough campaign season for her to evade any real scrutiny from Democratic hagiographers in the media, Harris could theoretically pull from her prior failed 2020 presidential bid to fill up her currently non-existent slate of policy proposals.

But even as Harris pretends she never endorsed nationalizing 30% of the nation’s economy and banning private health insurance and fracking, she has taken a full month to borrow from different presidential campaigns to construct a new fiscal policy agenda. From former President Richard Nixon, she is taking the tried and failed doctrine of price controls. And, oddly, she is trying to steal the current tax proposals of her opponents: Former president Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).

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