Courtesy of the White House.
Taxes for the Middle Class:
- Restore the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit
- Expand the Child Tax Credit to $6,000 tax cuts to any families with newborn children
- Anyone earning less than $400,000 annually will not pay more taxes.
- Implement a billionaire minimum tax and “quadruple the tax on stock buybacks.”
- People earning a million dollars or more a year will have a 28 percent tax rate on long-term capital gains.
Rent and Homeownership affordability and attainability:
- Build 3 million affordable houses and rental units
- Penalize any firms that “hoard available homes” to drive up prices.
- Give first-time homebuyers a maximum of $25,000 to help them pay their down payments.
Small Businesses:
- Expand the tax deduction for new business from $5,000 to $50,000 and increase the amount of federal contract dollars going to small businesses.
Bad Actors and Costs:
- “Crack down” on practices that allow big corporations to increase prices and “undermine the competition” that allows business to thrive while also keeping the prices low for consumers.
- All for a federal bad on corporate price gouging on consumer goods
- Lower drug prices and “cap insulin costs” and take on Big Pharma, for non-seniors as well
- Take on any pharmacy middlemen who raise prices for their own gain.
Health Care:
- Strengthen the Affordable Care Act
- Keep tax credit enhancements, which are lowering health care premiums of about $800 a year.
- Extend the $35 cap on insulin and the $2,000 out-of-pocket cap.
- Lower drug prices and cancel medical debt for more americans
Social Security and Medicare:
- Ensure millionaires and billionaires pay their taxes
- Fight for citizens to get the benefits they earned.
American Innovations and Workers:
- Support clean energy, AI and american leadership in semiconductors
- She will “fight for unions.”
- Sign in the PRO Act and the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act.
- Raise minimum wage and end sub-minimum wages for people with disabilities and for tipped workers
- Implement paid family and medical leave
- Eliminate taxing on tips for service and hospitality workers
Pathway to the Middle Class:
- Ensure parents can afford high-quality child care and preschool for their children
- Strengthen public education
- Fight for higher education to be more affordable.
Child Care and Long Term Care:
- Lower care costs
- Pay care workers a living wage
Energy Costs and the Climate Crisis:
- Advance environmental justice
- Protect public lands
- Protect public health
- Lower household energy costs
- Create millions of new jobs
- Hold polluters accountable
Reproductive Freedoms:
- Sign a bill to restore reproductive freedom for all states
Civil Rights and Freedoms:
- Pass John Lewis Voting Rights
- Pass Freedom to Vote Acts
- Pass the Equality Act
- Expand vote-by-mail and early voting
- Secure $2 billion in funding for Offices of Civil Rights
Gun Violence and crime:
- Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines
- Require universal background checks to purchase a gun
- Support red flag laws
- Fund law enforcement
Borders and Immigration:
- Sign the bipartisan border security bill
Opioid and Fentanyl Crisis:
- Sign bipartisan border bill
Ensure no one is above the law:
- Require Justices to comply with ethics rules
- Term limits for the Supreme Court
- Ensure that former presidents do not have immunity for crimes committed during their term
War:
- Support Israel and their right to defend themselves
Veterans:
- Fight to end veteran homelessness
- Invest in mental health and suicide prevention
- Expand economic opportunity for military and veteran families
All policies were sourced from the Kamala Harris Website.
For more information on who Kamala Harris is, read our Who is Kamala Harris? article.
