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September 10, 2024 – 1:53 PM
Vice President and Democratic candidate for the White House Kamala Harris is betting on a centrist program on issues such as migration, the economy and climate, even if it means abandoning past positions, but still vague in certain aspects.
These are some of their proposals.
– Economy of opportunities –
The California Democrat is running as a candidate for the middle classes and wants to create an “economy of opportunity.”
If elected, she promises tax relief for the birth of a child, help with buying a home and a boost to business creation.
But there is also an offensive, as yet undefined, against abusive practices by companies in terms of price fixing.
Kamala Harris reiterated some of Joe Biden’s commitments regarding the taxation of large fortunes but moderated them.
He wants to tax long-term capital gains at 28% for households earning more than $1 million a year, a higher rate than the current one. Biden had promised 39.6%.
– Right to clean air –
Kamala Harris has not yet detailed her environmental program. She only mentioned during the Democratic convention “the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis.”
He said he would not ban hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a hydrocarbon extraction method denounced by environmentalists and which he had opposed in the past.
According to Axios, he also made a U-turn on banning plastic straws, something he no longer supports.
As vice president, she supported Joe Biden’s major energy transition plan, known as the “Reducing Inflation Act.”
– Migration policy –
This is one of the most sensitive issues of the campaign.
Kamala Harris said she would pursue a tough policy, with “consequences” for people who enter the United States illegally.
She has supported a project to significantly tighten immigration policy, which includes investing in physical barriers on the border with Mexico: the famous “wall” promoted by Donald Trump, which the 59-year-old candidate has harshly criticized in the past.
The text, promoted by Biden, also restricts access to the right to asylum, but was never applied due to a lack of consensus in Congress.
– Abortion, on the front line –
On this issue his position is clear.
She was at the forefront of the Democratic mobilization after the conservative-majority Supreme Court ended the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion, a decision that led many southern states to ban or severely restrict voluntary abortions.
Democrats are calling for the rights stripped away by the highest US court to be turned into a federal law binding on all states.
– Foreign policy –
The Democratic candidate promised that if she wins the election, she will stand “firmly” with Ukraine and NATO allies and will not make “friends with dictators.”
In an interview with CNN on August 29, Harris reiterated her support for Israel’s right “to defend itself” and answered “no” when asked if, as president, she would suspend US arms shipments to Israel, in the midst of the war in Gaza.
In the same interview, he also said that “too many innocent Palestinians have died” and called for “a ceasefire.”
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