First No Tax on Tips, Now Child Tax Credits: Kamala Steals Another Policy
Kamala Harris has stolen another policy from the Trump-Vance campaign.
On Friday, Harris announced a new tax-credit policy for newborns just days after JD Vance suggested a near-identical expansion of child-tax credits.
The Vice President made the announcement at a campaign rally in North Carolina, on Friday. She said she would revive and extend a policy that was temporarily offered to parents in the 2021 tax year. Parents were offered a $3,600 tax credit for each child.
Harris said the 2021 rules ensured “millions of Americans with children got to keep more of their hard-earned income.”
“We know this works and has an impact on so many issues, including child poverty,” she added.
On Twitter, Ryan Girdusky blasted Harris for stealing Vance’s policy, and the mainstream media for giving her an easy ride.
He contrasted Vance’s treatment when he announced his tax-credit policy—“He’s working against childless Americans”—with the media’s fawning treatment of Harris when she announced the same policy.
Elon Musk commented on the post: “This is getting weird (lol).”
Last week, Donald Trump Jr. coined a new slogan for the Harris-Walz campaign: “Stolen proposals and stolen valor.”
After Harris stole Trump’s “no taxes for tips” policy, the former president predicted that it would not be the last policy the Vice President stole.
“How long will it be before Kamala Harris comes out with another ‘TRUMP’ policy like, ‘No Taxes will be paid by our Senior Citizens on Social Security?’ She’s looking really bad now! Everyone is waiting to see what idea, or policy of mine, she will copy next.”
“I Will Snatch Their Patent”: Harris Threatens To Confiscate Private Property
Video has resurfaced from late 2019 of Kamala Harris threatening to “snatch” corporate patents.
At the time the video was recorded, the Vice President was still in the presidential race. She was speaking at a campaign event in Muscatine, Iowa, on 22 November 2019.
“I will snatch their patent, so that we [i.e. the government] will take over,” Harris says in the clip.
“Yes, we can do that! The question is, do you have the will to do it? I have the will to do it!”
? WOW! Kamala Harris is literally threatening to unilaterally CONFISCATE citizens’ and businesses’ private property
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 17, 2024
“I will snatch their patent, so that we [the government] will take over. Yes we can do that!”
THIS IS WHAT LITERAL DICTATORS DO.
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It’s unclear exactly what the context of her statement was, but the implications were clear enough to viewers.
“THIS IS WHAT LITERAL DICTATORS DO. Comrade Kamala wants to turn America into a communist hellhole, and she’s OPEN about it. This should terrify EVERYONE!” tweeted Nick Sortor, who posted the clip.
“Kamala Harris’ threat to confiscate patents is a chilling glimpse into her radical agenda,” Tweeted another user. “The government taking over intellectual property is a direct assault on innovation and individual rights. Are we really ready to let bureaucrats dictate the future of our economy?”
Kamala Harris recently announced that she would introduced price controls to curb inflation, a proposal that has rattled many of her own supporters, including media outlets like The Washington Post.
“When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t introduce price controls,” was the headline of an opinion piece that ran on the Post’s website on Friday.
“It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is,” wrote Catherine Rampell.
“It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food. Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels. Far-off Washington bureaucrats would. The FTC would be able to tell, say, a Kroger in Ohio the acceptable price it can charge for milk.
“At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets and hoarding, among other distortions seen previous times countries tried to limit price growth by fiat. (There’s a reason narrower “price gouging” laws that exist in some U.S. states are rarely invoked.) At worst, it might accidentally raise prices.”
Investigation Launched into Walz’s Links with the CCP
An official investigation has been launched into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s links to the Chinese Communist Party.
James Comer, who leads the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, announced the investigation on Friday with a press release and a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“The CCP has sought to destroy the United States through coordinated influence and infiltration campaigns that target every aspect of American life, including our own elected officials,” Comer said in the press release.
“Americans should be deeply concerned that Governor Walz, Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential running mate, has a longstanding and cozy relationship with China. Mr. Walz has visited China dozens of times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the President of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders. FBI briefers recently informed the Committee that the Bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force investigates CCP activity that is similar to China’s engagement with Governor Walz. The American people deserve to fully understand how deep Governor Walz’s relationship with China goes.”
The press release goes on to detail how Walz began organizing school trips to China, funded by the CCP, in the early 1990s, and then set up a private company which organized annual trips to China, until it was dissolved days before Walz entered Congress in 2007. Walz has visited China an estimated 30 times, and held various positions of influence with regard to US-China relations.
In his letter to FBI Director Wray, Comer asks for a variety of documents and information relating to Walz’s activities in and with regard to China, including about Chinese individuals and organizations and any warnings or guidance issued to Governor Walz about “subnational government officials engaging with the PRC, CCP, and the CCP’s proxies.”
In addition to questions about his longstanding ties to China and the CCP, Walz has faced scrutiny for his relationships with a radical pro-Hitler Muslim cleric in Minnesota and large amounts of funding provided by his administration to a Muslim group with links to Al Qaeda.
Walz Admin. Gave $2 Million to Charity Linked to Al Qaeda
The State of Minnesota, under Governor Tim Walz, gave a grant of $2 million to a charity with links to Al Qaeda, according to explosive reporting from The Washington Examiner.
The Examiner reviewed funding records for Walz’s administration and found that millions of dollars have been given to a group that has collaborated with a group known to fund Islamic terrorism.
The Islamic Association of North America received the money in the form of state grants between 2019 and 2024. According to The Examiner, Facebook posts revealed that the Islamic Association has been fundraising for a Michigan-based charity, Rahma International, that is linked to the Islamic Heritage Revival Society of Kuwait, which has been sanctioned as a terrorist group by the US government.
The news comes at a time of intense scrutiny for Kamala Harris’s running-mate. Walz has faced questions about his ties to Islamic extremists in Minnesota, including pro-Hitler cleric Asad Zaman, and about his links to the Chinese Communist Party, which are now subject to an official investigation by James Comer, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
“The CCP has sought to destroy the United States through coordinated influence and infiltration campaigns that target every aspect of American life, including our own elected officials,” said Comer, in a press release issued on Friday.
“Americans should be deeply concerned that Governor Walz, Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential running mate, has a longstanding and cozy relationship with China.”
“Mr. Walz has visited China dozens of times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the President of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders. FBI briefers recently informed the Committee that the Bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force investigates CCP activity that is similar to China’s engagement with Governor Walz. The American people deserve to fully understand how deep Governor Walz’s relationship with China goes.”
Walz has also faced damaging claims of “stolen valor,” for misrepresenting and even lying about his career in the Minnesota National Guard.
Walz’s former battalion commander, retired Lt. Col. John Kolb, described Walz as a self-serving coward in a scorching Facebook post.
“I do not regret that Tim Walz retired early from the Minnesota Army National Guard, did not complete the Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract or did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major. Unwittingly, he got out of the way for better leadership,” Kolb wrote.
ABC Releases New Details on Trump-Harris Debate
ABC News has released new details about the debate it will be hosting between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump.
On Friday, ABC revealed that the first debate will take place in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center on 10 September at 9pm EDT. It will be moderated by David Muir, who anchors World News Tonight, and Linsey Davis, a news anchor and correspondent. It will be available to watch on ABC, ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu.
The Harris campaign has dismissed calls from Donald Trump to hold more than two presidential debates, issuing a statement on Thursday that the “debate about debates is over.” Kamala Harris has indicated that she is prepared to debate Trump again after the vice-presidential debate, which is now scheduled for 1 October.
Trump has pushed repeatedly for there to be three presidential debates. On 8 August, he said that he had negotiated debates with ABC, NBC and Fox News. One of Trump’s advisors said that Trump will hold town halls if the Vice President rejects the additional debates.
The candidates for vice president, JD Vance and Tim Walz, are now also scheduled to meet. Their debate will take place on 1 October in New York City and will be hosted by CBS.
Vance, like his running-mate, also wants there to be multiple debates.
“The American people deserve as many debates as possible, which is why President Trump has challenged Kamala to three of them already. Not only do I accept the CBS debate on Oct. 1, I accept the CNN debate on Sept. 18 as well. I look forward to seeing you at both!” Vance Tweeted after the date for the first debate was set.
So far, Tim Walz has not responded to Vance’s call for a second debate.
The willingness or otherwise of the Vice President to debate and make media appearances in general has drawn stinging criticism from Donald Trump.
At a rally in Bozeman, Arizona, Trump blasted Harris for her refusal to hold press conferences and be interviewed since her selection to be the Democrat presidential candidate.
“When you’re the commander in chief, you don’t get to run and hide away from the press,” Trump said.
“If you can’t do a press conference, you can’t be president,” he added.
Corey Comperatore’s Widow May Join Trump on Stage When He Returns to Butler
The widow of the man killed during the assassination attempt on Donald Trump last month has said she may join the former president on stage when he returns to the complete the rally that was interrupted.
Corey Comperatore was killed protecting his wife and daughters when Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on 13 July.
His wife, Helen, and his daughters, Kaylee and Allyson, spoke to Action News 4 on Friday about the tragic events that took place.
“He definitely was a hero,” said Helen Comperatore.
“He saved his wife, he saved his child and he was just the best guy. He was just the best.”
Helen went on to say that she wanted people to remember him not “as the man that was shot at the rally,” but “as he was”: “a great man that was a great father. He was a great husband.”
His daughters also told Action News about exactly what happened when their father was killed.
“I was the one that my dad threw down. As he was throwing me down, that was when he was shot and he ended up falling onto me,” Allyson said.
“I don’t remember hearing any other shots. I don’t remember feeling any other shots. In that moment, I was trying to take care of him.
“I was really confused when he was on me. I had turned around, and I went, ‘Dad,’ and when I turned is whenever he fell down, and that’s when I started screaming and instantly I was trying to keep him from bleeding.”
“I started screaming, but in my head, I kept saying, ‘Wake up,’ like this is a dream,” Kaylee said. “And then you realize it’s not a dream, and you feel like your whole world is just over.”
Helen Comperatore told Action News that she has been approached by the Trump campaign to join the former president on stage when he returns to Butler in October. She said that she would consider doing so, but only if she was satisfied with security arrangements in place.
During the interview, she expressed her anger at security failures on the day of the assassination attempt.
“I want justice for my husband, and I’m going to get it,” she said, adding that she has hired an attorney.
The daughters also slammed security for failing to protect their father.
“I just want them to know that I really think my dad’s blood is on their hands, and I hope they wake up every day thinking about what they took from our family,” Kaylee said.
“Because we have to wake up every day and see that image of our father in our head, and no child should ever have to see that.”
Two other people in the crowd at the rally were shot. David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, and James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, are both recovering at home after being discharged from hospital.