Kamala Harris unveils economic plan

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BREAKING: Vice President Kamala Harris is unveiling a bold, detailed plan to lower costs for American families in her first 100 days in office. Here's what you need to know:

🏠 Housing Affordability: Harris will address the housing crisis by building 3 million new units, cutting red tape to lower rents and mortgages, and providing $25,000 in down-payment support for first-time homeowners. She’ll also take on predatory landlords and Wall Street investors who drive up housing costs.

💊 Lowering Prescription Drug Costs: Building on her work in the Inflation Reduction Act, Harris will cap insulin at $35 and out-of-pocket drug costs at $2,000 for all Americans, not just seniors. She’ll also speed up Medicare's ability to negotiate lower drug prices and crack down on Big Pharma's abusive practices.

đź›’ Reducing Grocery Costs: Harris is taking aim at price gouging in the food industry, introducing the first-ever federal ban on excessive grocery price hikes, and supporting smaller businesses to foster competition and keep prices low.

đź’¸ Cutting Taxes for the Middle Class:
Harris will expand the Child Tax Credit to provide up to $6,000 for families with newborns, restore the expanded credit for other families, and cut taxes for frontline workers and those who need help with health insurance.

These actions are part of Harris’s broader economic agenda to strengthen the middle class, protect Social Security and Medicare, create jobs, and ensure everyone has a fair shot at the American Dream.
 

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The housing one is important but difficult.

More construction keeps housing prices more competitive because it increases supply. But a lot of people oppose it because of NIMBYism and their own greed about their property values.

This is something that people will need to get over. I hope Kamala...or any politician at any level, can find an effective way to explain this to the public.
 

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Not a bad plan at all, but unfortunately money and greed is going to prevent a lot of those goals from coming into place.

It's more money in creating problems than it is coming up with actual solutions to benefit society as a whole.

A lot of these politicians would be better served keeping it real with people from the jump instead of inspiring false hope, but that defeats the purpose of politics.
 

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Same shyt different election cycle. :francis: Building 3 million units don't mean shyt if zoning laws are not addressed. Also, that money would go to real estate developers who's preferring to build in downtown areas with higher starting costs.

Question is though, what do you really do about zoning laws as president?

Maybe I'm mistaken but I think zoning laws are usually a local/state issue.
 
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