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On Aug. 16 in North Carolina, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her first major policy speech, outlining the key elements of her economic agenda. The speech emphasized her plans to challenge big corporations and reduce the cost of living.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich argues that Harris’ speech advocates for extensive government intervention and is indicative of her socialist ambitions.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
Well, Vice President Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech at the convention will be a big deal, and the press will cover it intensely. The fact is, the speech she gave last Friday in North Carolina may be the most important speech of the entire campaign.
For reasons I don’t understand, she decided to outline an extraordinarily big government, socialist position to take on the question of the price of food, to suggest that the real problem wasn’t that the government was spending too much, that inflation was going up in general, but instead to suggest that somehow people were gouging prices, that corporations were in some sneaky way trying to rip off people.
Now the problem with that is that it leads you down a road of suggesting that big government socialism works, and that free enterprise capitalism does not work. And that doesn’t work for politicians, because the average American knows that having a government bureaucrat watch the price of eggs, or the price of milk, or the price of meat, isn’t going to solve anything — that, in fact, the real problem with inflation is too much spending. And that’s what made this speech doubly bad, because in this speech in North Carolina, Vice President Harris suggested $1.7 trillion in additional spending.
Interested in opposing perspectives? Have a look at how our other contributors view this issue from across the political spectrum:
David Pakman: Why Trump’s attacks on Kamala Harris are not working.
Dr. Rashad Richey: Kamala Harris’ theme is that she is not Donald Trump.
