Freedom for the working class, Harris style

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Progressive politics for the working class

Kamala Harris announced a list of progressive economic policy proposals before and during the Democratic National Committee. Many of these proposals are continuations of temporary measures enacted by Democrats during the first two years of Biden's term, when the party controlled Congress.

Harris, for example, called for a permanent increase in the child tax credit to $3,600, which the American Rescue Plan set up for one year in 2021, up from the current limit of $2,000. This pandemic-era expansion of the child tax credit has been temporarily lifted almost 3 million children out of poverty and a reduction in child poverty by 35 percent.

To finance these efforts, Harris proposed $5 trillion in tax increases on corporations and high-income Americans, including increasing the corporate tax rate from 21 percent To 28 percent. During the Congress Harris also called for a tax cut for the middle class, without giving any details.