According to a Fox News story, the Harris-Walz campaign finally updated its website Sunday night with pages of campaign policies. That update came 50 days after President Biden was forced to drop out as the Democrat nominee and endorse his vice president.
Harris formally accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention 17 days ago.
The campaign website lists policy proposals in four sections: "Build an Opportunity Economy and Lower Costs for Families," "Safeguard Our Fundamental Freedoms," "Ensure Safety and Justice For All," and "Keep America Safe, Secure, and Prosperous."
After the public learned of the updated website, it didn’t take long for keen observers to notice a cut-and-paste job that was traced back to source code from Biden’s website from four years ago. The liberal news outlet New Republic confirmed the transfer of metadata, which it called “political plagiarism" in its story.
The Harris-Walz campaign even sloppily cut and pasted a 2020 Biden-Harris statement – “Join our campaign to re-elect Joe Biden today” – on the Harris-Walz website.
Harris ‘lying’ to voters
Among the campaign promises on the Harris-Walz website, Harris is telling voters she would lower taxes for the middle class, grow small businesses, and lower energy costs.
Alfredo Ortiz, CEO of Job Creators Network, says Harris is “lying” to voters in a desperate attempt to win their votes in November.
The evidence of the lie, he says, is a future President Harris intends to repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that President Trump signed into law in 2017.
"The absence of these tax cuts, and the addition of $5 trillion of new taxes Harris promises, will grind small business creation to a halt," Ortiz warns.
Even the Democrat nominee’s idea for a $6,000 child tax credit, which she copied from the Trump-Vance campaign, is really a “de facto universal basic income,” Ortiz tells AFN.
Only ‘emergency’ is decline of dollar
J.D. Tucille, a contributing editor at Reason.com, tells AFN he is concerned Harris is promising to go after “price gouging” in the grocery industry.
“The fact is the profit margin for retail grocery stores is 1.18%,” he says. “That’s a tiny profit margin.”
Going farther back to food production by corporations, and to the farms that produce the food, Tucille says their profit margins bounce up and down but never climb higher than 8%.
On the Harris-Walz website, it states a President Harris will “go after bad actors who exploit an emergency to rip off consumers by calling for the first-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries…”
It is not clear what “emergency” the campaign is referring to, other than $35.3 trillion national debt, but grocery prices jumped because of inflation which is caused by government spending.
“That’s not the corporations that are gouging prices,” Tucille says. “It’s the government that’s reduced the purchasing power of the dollar.”
The national debt skyrocketed during Trump's one term, which would be a legitimate issue for Harris, but the Harris-Walz website mentions only paying off student loan debt and paying off medical debt.
Ortiz also warns that Harris's "radical green agenda" puts burdensome new regulations on traditional energy from oil and natural gas, reduces supply, and boosts costs for consumers.
"Due to Biden-Harris energy regulations,” he says, “U.S. oil production is millions of barrels per day below former President Trump's pre-Covid baseline.”
