Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for a rare interview on Tuesday, this time with yet another far-left, pro-Harris media outlet in MSNBC. In what is becoming a common theme across Harris interviews, the vice president failed to answer direct questions, instead opting for vague platitudes and word salads.
“Expanding that child tax credit or you mentioned housing before giving that extra money for a first home. If you can’t raise corporate taxes, or if GOP takes control of the Senate Where do you get the money to do that?” asked MSNBC’s Stephanie Rhule. “Do you still go forward with those plans and borrow?”
“Well, but we’re gonna have to raise corporate taxes, and we’re gonna have to raise we’re gonna have to make sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share. That’s just it. It’s about paying their fair share. I am not mad at anyone for achieving success, but everyone should pay their fair share,” Harris replied, sidestepping the question about how exactly she plans to implement her agenda.
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Rhule then asked the prospect of corporations leaving the country if corporate tax rates are significantly raised.
“Well listen I work with a lot of CEOs, I have spent a lot of time with CEOs and I’m going to tell you that the business leaders who are actually part of the engine of America’s economy agree that people should pay their fair share,” Harris said, once again devolving into vague rhetoric.
“They also agree that when we look at a plan such as mine that is about investing in the middle class, investing in new industries, investing in bringing down costs, invest in entrepreneurs like small businesses, that the overall economy is stronger and everyone benefits.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Harris claimed that COVID pandemic-level unemployment levels were on par with the Great Depression. In reality, unemployment peaked at 14.8 percent during the peak of government-mandated shutdowns — which occurred primarily in blue states — in April 2020.
By the time Joe Biden took office in January, 2021, unemployment was at 6.3 percent. The Biden-Harris went on to falsely claim that they created tens of millions of jobs, when almost all job growth was simply jobs returning from before the pandemic.
Still, Harris was allowed to lie with impunity without a fact check from Rhule.
“Donald Trump left us with the worst economy since the Great Depression when you look at, for example, the employment numbers,” she claimed. After Rhule noted that most job losses were due to government-mandated shutdowns, Harris once again issued another false claim, this time claiming that Trump shipped manufacturing jobs overseas.
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