Jennifer Rubin is a columnist for The Washington Post. She was hired to be a conservative voice. Trump flipped her.
She writes here about Kamala’s specific economic proposals:
The media, political insiders, former Republicans and even members of Harris’s own party have underestimated her abilities to carve policy positions and reconsolidate the Democratic base.
Most prominently, she has been consistently criticized for failing to articulate her economic vision. However, in two speeches — one in Raleigh, N.C., last month and one in Pittsburg on Wednesday(where she identified herself as a capitalist seeking “bold, persistent experimentation”) — as well as numerous campaign events, she has delineated a set of serious, concrete policies. These include: restoring the child tax credit; creating a $6,000 credit for the parents of newborns in their baby’s first year; stimulating the housing market; subsidizing first-time home buyers; eliminating unnecessary college degree requirements for federal jobs; subsidizing child care (thereby limiting child-care costs to 7 percent of lower-wage earners’ income); raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent; and expanding the tax credit for start-up businesses to $50,000 (with the goal of 25 million new business applications by the end of her first term). In Pittsburgh, she added new economic policy positions: become the global leader in everything from artificial intelligence to clean energy to aerospace to biomanufacturing; double the number of paid apprenticeships; reform tax laws to allow more employee profit-sharing; incentivize investment in factory towns; and cut red tape in permitting for construction.
This week, the White House announced that “the economy has grown by 3.2 percent per year during Biden-Harris administration — even stronger than previously estimated — and better than the first three years of the previous administration.”
Harris has managed to reduce former president Donald Trump’s polling edge on the candidate most trusted with the economy. And frankly, she has left those complaining about her “lack of details” with egg on their faces.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
It’s detailed enough for these purposes. And Trump has near-zero detail and makes policy up and abandons it on the fly. I think the only thing that matters at this point is how to get voters to the polls.
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Harris didn’t just describe her finance proposals last week & last month; she included the ones listed here in her responses during the debate — I think 3 times. Yet, the next day in interviews, Republicans & voters who identified themselves as still undecided complained that she’d said nothing specific. What were they watching? If they were truly undecided, then why weren’t they listening? They ignored anything that didn’t conform to conclusions they’d drawn before the debate started. I’m wondering what it will take for them to acknowledge that she has answered their questions.
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Lenny,
Agreed. I don’t understand those who say that she hasn’t spelled out her plans. She has been consistent since the beginning of her campaign. Yet critics continue to say, “I don’t know what her plans are.” Willed ignorance.
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I think people were echoing the MSM’s statements that she hadn’t offered a detailed economic plan. The narrative has been that she’s secretive and that she lacks policy positions. Since she’s only been running for President for about 2 months, I think she’s doing pretty well. She didn’t have two years of primary election to mull over her positions and publish them.
I like her economic proposals. It’s nice to see she hasn’t adopted Obama’s, “you earn what you learn,” line. I fear the neoliberals are alive and well within the Democratic party, despite Biden’s departure from their dogma.
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It boogles the mind that the voters view the GOP as being better for the economy. The record shows that GOP presidents tend to drive up the debt and create fewer jobs. Harris is a capitalist with a willingness to experiment. As fifty years of neoliberalism and trickle down economics, we have huge income inequality and billionaires dictating policies. It is time for a change that rebuilds the middle class, and Harris’ plan for “an opportunity economy” sounds promising. The wealthy may not like it, but they have squeezed working families enough. When the middle class does better, America does better, not just economically, but socially as well.
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Thanks, Diane.and thanks, Jennifer, for making Kamala’s plans for the economy clear and available.
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