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#POTUS: Elon Musk costcutter vs tax and spend. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#POTUS: Elon Musk costcutter vs tax and spend. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business
1885 Christmas on the Exchange Floor

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0:00.0

I'm John Bachelors with my colleague Elizabeth Peek, a columnist at the Hill,

0:08.7

Congress at Fox News.

0:10.5

We're looking at the two campaigns and their economic plans for the next administration, 2025.

0:20.0

I mean to keep this simple, Liz, because I don't want to be accused to being a policy

0:23.7

walk okay?

0:25.7

Trump's plan is to continue his tax cuts from 2017.

0:30.2

Harris's plan is not to continue those tax cuts from 2017. Is that the whole of it?

0:38.0

Well that's certainly a good starting point.

0:41.0

Yeah, Trump was to extend the 2017 tax cuts and possibly even go further.

0:48.4

Kamala Harris was to let the tax cuts expire except, says for those which impact people making under

0:56.4

four hundred thousand dollars a year and so you know it's the the devils and the details for sure, but what you're talking about with

1:08.2

the Harris campaign is a pretty gigantic hike on corporate taxes to be sure. In fact again, Joe Biden wanted to go

1:17.8

beyond the prior corporate tax rate where Harris wants to land is not clear but remember the reason we cut taxes

1:25.8

cut the tax rate on corporations in 2017 is that our country imposed the

1:31.4

highest corporate tax rate of all the OECD countries.

1:35.0

So to be competitive, again, to allow American companies to do well,

1:39.0

that was thought that you had to bring the tax rate down.

1:41.0

That apparently is not the view of Kamla Harris. She also wants to really

1:47.2

height taxes and particularly capital gains taxes on high net worth individuals.

1:53.1

She wants to, they're talking still about taxing

1:56.0

unrealized capital gains, which is a ridiculous idea,

2:00.0

doesn't work, it's been abandoned by every country that has tried it.

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