On November 5th, the presidential election will take place, deciding the future president of the United States of America for the next 4 years. The competition between Kamala D. Harris and Donald J. Trump is still raging on and it is crucial that people understand the policies of both candidates and personally understand how this may affect them and others. According to the official Kamala Harris website (https://kamalaharris.com/issues/), Harris’s economic plan includes restoring the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit, increasing the tax rate on long-term capital gains to 28 percent for people who make a million dollars a year or more, and not increasing taxes on people earning $400,000 per year or less. She has other plans to make housing more affordable by providing a $25,000 down payment on houses for first-time homeowners and to grow small businesses.
Harris’s plan for freedoms includes civil rights and reproductive freedoms, the article stating Harris will not allow for a national abortion ban to become law and that she will pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Freedom to Vote Act, and Equality Act. There is additionally a focus on safety, the article explaining Harris’s plan states she is interested in supporting red flag laws, banning assault weapons, performing universal background checks, and investing in law
enforcement but she also has plans for the immigration system, and opioid and fentanyl problem by signing the bipartisan border security bill into law.
According to the official Donald Trump website (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/issues), Trump’s economic plan includes restoring industry within the country to avoid relying on international trade goods, opening more job opportunities, tremendously increasing oil and gas production in the US to lower gas prices, and eliminating the green new deal which changes our energy production to 100 percent renewable. Trump’s plans for borders include intentions to shut down catch-and-release, asylum fraud, and the Biden-Harris border, he will restore Remain within Mexico, remove illegal alien gang members and criminals, and create an immigration system based on merits. He also has a plan for stopping crime and creating safety by strengthening and significantly funding the police force, increasing the penalty for assault on a police officer, putting dangerous people, violent offenders, and career criminals in prison, and pushing the national guard and federal prosecutors into high crime communities.
Trump is planning to attack drug cartels by tearing them down, forcing naval embargo on cartels, kill their access to the global financial system, ordering the Department of Defense to inflict maximum damage on cartel operations and leadership, label cartels as terrorist organizations, and give traffickers and drug smugglers the death penalty. Trump has several more policies including growing the American leadership and strength, embracing patriotism instead of globalism, protecting the rights of parents and caring for veterans, defending our law and liberty, ending censorship/violation of free speech, restoring free speech, honest-free-lawful elections, and ending the corruption of washington. Both candidates have interesting policies with more details on their websites and confirmed trustworthy sources, so it is recommended to personally research this topic to gain a greater knowledge of the subject.
