As a senator in 2017, Vice President Kamala Harris voted in alignment with Senate Democrats to oppose the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which resulted in doubling the child tax credit to $2,000.
This is the same tax credit that she now aims to significantly increase.
In a lengthy statement after voting to oppose the historic tax reform package, Harris wrote:
The tax plan approved tonight by my Republican colleagues is shameful. Tonight, corporations and the top 1% of Americans won at the expense of middle class families. This is wrong and does not reflect the best of who we are as a country.
At a time when corporate profits are at an all-time high and pay for workers has stagnated, my Republican colleagues have given corporations and the top 1% of Americans a permanent tax cut. This plan does this by adding $1 trillion to the deficit and asking workers and middle class families to pay for it. We should not explode the deficit and pull the rug out from the middle class to give billions to those who already have so much.
Under this bill, 572,000 tax payers making over $1 million a year will get $34 billion in tax cuts in a single year. If you’re a senior relying on Medicare, this tax plan puts you at risk by slashing Medicare by up to $410 billion over a decade, with more than $45 billion of those cuts hitting California. And because Senate Republicans couldn’t repeal the Affordable Care Act, they’re trying to take away the health care of millions of Americans and increase the premiums for millions of Californians, by repealing the individual mandate.
Instead of playing politics with people’s lives, we should be delivering for the American people who have spoken loud and clear that this isn’t what they want. There is a better way to reform our tax code, one that is bipartisan, transparent, and fair for all Americans. [Emphasis added]
Harris wrote in 2017, “The Republican tax bill that passed the Senate is a travesty. It gives even more tax breaks to the top 1% and permanently cuts corporate tax rates at the expense of middle class families. This isn’t what Americans wanted, and it’s up to us to fight back at the ballot box in 2018.”
The Republican tax bill that passed the Senate is a travesty. It gives even more tax breaks to the top 1% and permanently cuts corporate tax rates at the expense of middle class families. This isn’t what Americans wanted, and it’s up to us to fight back at the ballot box in 2018. https://t.co/TRlhFpZzzR
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 20, 2017
In 2019, Harris, who was vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, advocated for the complete elimination of the tax bill.
Recently, Harris adopted the Trump-Vance campaign’s policy proposal to significantly increase the child tax credit.
When Vance initially proposed expanding the child tax credit to $5,000, Harris subsequently suggested raising it to $6,000.
“As a senator in 2017, Vice President Kamala Harris voted in alignment with Senate Democrats to oppose the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which resulted in doubling the child tax credit to $2,000. (This is the same tax credit that she now aims to significantly increase”) if elected.
Ms. Carlin, if you’re going to call out Kamala for her well-deserved hypocrisy on child tax credits, you also need to analyze and refute what she said in her statements about the tax bill after it passed. If her statements are misinformation or just plain false, you need to say so and why.
Wonder if any one has taken the time to estimate what her wonderful $25,000 “giveaway” will cost US? Let’s see.,, We have about 300 million people in this country; assume 10 million take her up on her “offer”. 10,000,000 X 25,000 = 250,000,000,000; that’s BILLION folks. Now where will that come from? Hmmm? Either MORE TAXES OR MORE PRINTED MONEY = inflation on steroids. What a bunch of bovine effluent!!!! YES, SHE IS A DAMN LYING WITCH (with a “B”)