Vice President Kamala Harris says Donald Trump wants to raise taxes on the people. At their debate on September 10 in Philadelphia, this is what she said:
“The plan my opponent has is what I call the Trump sales tax. It would put a 20% tax on things you need every day to get through the month. For middle-class families, Trump’s sales tax would mean an extra $4,000 a year, according to economists.”
Harris said the same thing last week at her big gathering in Greensboro, North Carolina, “He wants to put in place what is basically a national sales tax. This is what I call a “Trump sales tax” since it will be a tax on everyday things that everyone needs. Economists say it will cost the average family almost $4,000 more a year.”
You get the idea. You may also know that Trump has not suggested a national sales tax. That’s Trump’s tariff plans, many of which are aimed at China and are similar to his tariff policies as president. But here’s the thing. When they took office, Joe Biden and Harris kept the taxes that Trump had put in place. They could have taken them off, but they didn’t. And last week, just as Harris was criticizing the “Trump sales tax,” her government was putting in place the same taxes that she and Biden kept after Trump left office.
Last Friday, the New York Times had a title that said, “Biden Administration Steps Up Tariffs on Chinese Goods.” The new measures from Biden and Harris will “add tariffs to Chinese products worth tens of billions of dollars. These will cover clothing, electric vehicles, solar panels, syringes, steel, and other goods that China has been selling at much lower prices than many American businesses,” according to the New York Times.
The NY Times says that at the same time that the Democrats raised tariffs, it also published a long-awaited study of the tariffs that the Trump administration put on over $300 billion worth of Chinese goods starting in 2018. It will be very disappointing for people who thought the Biden-Harris study would say bad things about Trump’s plans.
The New York Times reported that the study found that Trump’s tariffs had successfully reduced the United States’ exposure to unfair trade practices from China and that they should remain in place. The report also said that the taxes made U.S. companies switch where they get their supplies from, such as from China to other countries. The amount of goods that the U.S. bought from China dropped from 21.6 percent in 2017 to 13.7% in 2023.
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