Robert Hubbell was outraged by the editorial in The Washington Post attacking Kamala Harris’s economic plan. The editorial said, basically, that her plans to help the middle class made no sense. Consider the source, he says. In one post, he listed and praised Harris’s economic priorities, then went into detail, explaining how they would benefit the average American.

This is the heart of her economic plan:

  • Increase the child tax credit.
  • Increase the earned income tax credit for wage earners without children.
  • Prohibit price gouging in food supplies.
  • Subsidize down payments for first-time [home] buyers.
  • Decrease the cost of prescription drugs.

Then he followed up by attacking the Washington Post editorial belittling her plan.

He writes:

Apologies for taking a second-bite at the apple, but Jeff Bezos just gave Kamala Harris a gift that cannot be ignored. The Bezos-owned Washington Post just issued an Editorial by the Editorial Board that was titled, “Opinion The times demand serious economic ideas. Harris supplies gimmicks.”

Oh, thank you, Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods, and one of the largest home delivery grocery services on the planet, thank you!

Here is what Kamala Harris should do at the convention: Put up that headline on big screen, and give a speech that contains these elements:

The Washington Post Editorial Board, which works for billionaire Jeff Bezos, thinks it’s a “gimmick” to give families with newborns a tax credit in the first year of the newborn’s life.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos thinks it’s a “gimmick” to expand the child-tax credit, the single most effective measure for lifting children out of poverty in three generations.

Billionaire Bezos, who has a super-yacht to ferry passengers to his mega-yacht, thinks it’s a “gimmick” to give low-income working Americans a $1,500 tax credit.

Billionaire Bezos, whose company, Amazon, is trying to take over the pharmacy business in America, thinks it’s a gimmick to limit out of cost prescription drug prices to $2,000 for ALL Americans, not just seniors.

Billionaire Bezos, who just bought his THIRD mansion on an island in Florida, thinks it’s a gimmick to give first time home buyers a $25,000 subsidy for a starter home.

Billionaire Bezos says that we shouldn’t prohibit “price gouging” because grocery stores are aggressively reducing prices. Let me hear from you: Is your grocery bill going down now that inflation is under control?

Billionaire Bezos is free to have his personal newspaper criticize my plan all he wants. This is America and billionaires are entitled to free speech, even if they get to buy an Editorial Board to promote their opinions.

But fair is fair. Donald Trump held a press conference last week to reiterate his plan for the economy, which has only two elements: Extending tax cuts that favor billionaires and imposing an economy killing 10% tariff on all imports.

Here is what Jeff Bezos’s editorial board had to say about Donald Trump’s insane plan that just happens to be good for billionaires like Jeff Bezos: Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero. 

That’s right, in the face of an economic plan that favors Jeff Bezos but would destroy the economy for hundreds of millions of Americans, the Washington Post Editorial Board was silent–but roused itself to say that my plan aimed at helping the working poor and middle class is–according to Bezos–a bunch of gimmicks.

Now, Jeff Bezos and his employees on the Editorial Board will tell you that Bezos doesn’t weigh in the editorial stance of the Washington Post. If you believe that the panicked voice of Jeff Bezos wasn’t in the ear of every editor who did his bidding by writing that editorial–while ignoring Trump’s plan–I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you.

I have promised a new way forward for all Americans, one that does not involve a handful of billionaires telling us what is good for the working poor and middle class in America. I suggest that Jeff Bezos leave his private island in Florida, sell his super-yacht AND mega yacht, and spend some time with people like you–the people who built America before Amazon arrived on the scene and who will sustain it long after Amazon is gone. You are America. You are the new way forward. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.