Kamala Harris in Survey of 2024 Presidential campaign websites

On Budget & Economy: Provide first-time homebuyers up to $25K for down payments

As more new homes are built and affordable housing supply increases, Vice President Harris will provide first-time homebuyers with up to $25,000 to help with their down payments, with more generous support for first-generation homeowners. This will help more Americans experience the pride of homeownership and the financial security that it represents and brings – offering more Americans a path to the middle class and economic opportunity. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Civil Rights: Will fight to pass the Equality Act for LGBTQI+ Americans

As President, she'll always defend the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride. In 2004, she officiated some of the nation's first same-sex marriages and as Attorney General, she refused to defend California's anti-marriage equality statewide referendum. As President, she'll fight to pass the Equality Act to enshrine anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQI+ Americans in health care, housing, education, and more into law. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Corporations: Outlaw new forms of price fixing by corporate landlords

Vice President Harris has put forward a comprehensive plan to build three million more rental units and homes that are affordable to end the national housing supply crisis in her first term. And she will cut red tape to make sure we build more housing faster and penalize firms that hoard available homes to drive up prices for local homebuyers. Vice President Harris knows rent is too high and will sign legislation to outlaw new forms of price fixing by corporate landlords. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Corporations: Expand the startup expense tax deduction for new businesses

She has set an ambitious goal of 25 million new business applications by the end of her first term--over 10 million more than Trump saw during his term. She will expand the startup expense tax deduction for new businesses from $5,000 to $50,000 and take on the everyday obstacles and red tape that can make it harder to grow. She will drive venture capital to the talent that exists across our country including in rural areas, and increase federal contract dollars going to small businesses. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Families & Children: Restore both Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit

Vice President Harris and Governor Walz believe that working families deserve a break. They will do this by restoring two tax cuts designed to help middle class and working Americans: the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Through these two programs, millions of Americans get to keep more of their hard-earned income. They will also expand the Child Tax Credit to provide a $6,000 tax cut to families with newborn children. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Foreign Policy: Will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself

Vice President Harris will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself and she will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself. She and President Biden are working to end the war in Gaza, such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Free Trade: Stand up to China's unfair practices to protect US workers

Vice President Harris will make sure that America, not China, wins the competition for the 21st century and that we strengthen, not abdicate, our global leadership. She will invest in the competitive advantages that make America the strongest nation on Earth--American workers, innovation, and industry--and will work to ensure America remains a leader in the industries of the future, from semiconductors to clean energy to artificial intelligence. She has stood up to China's unfair economic practices to protect American workers, businesses, and families. And she has advanced our economic cooperation around the world, from rallying international leaders at an AI summit in the UK, to convening semiconductor business leaders in East Asia, to spurring private investment across Africa. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Government Reform: Pass John Lewis Voting Rights and Freedom to Vote Acts

Vice President Harris and Governor Walz believe many fundamental freedoms are at stake in this election. They will fight to ensure that Americans have the opportunity to participate in our democracy by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights and the Freedom to Vote Acts--laws that will enshrine voting rights protections, expand vote-by-mail and early voting, and more. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Government Reform: Term limits and ethic rules for Supreme Court Justices

Vice President Harris believes that no one is above the law. She'll fight to ensure that no former president has immunity for crimes committed while in the White House. She will also support common-sense Supreme Court reforms-- like requiring Justices to comply with ethics rules that other federal judges are bound by and imposing term limits--to address the crisis of confidence facing the Supreme Court. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Gun Control: Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines

She'll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require universal background checks, and support red flag laws that keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. She will also continue to invest in funding law enforcement, including the hiring and training of officers and people to support them, and will build upon proven gun violence prevention programs that have helped reduce violent crime throughout the country. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Immigration: Will bring back the bipartisan border security bill

After Donald Trump killed the border deal for his political gain, she and President Biden took action on their own--and now border crossings are at the lowest level in 4 years. As President, she will bring back the bipartisan border security bill and sign it into law. At the same time, she knows that our immigration system is broken and needs comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Jobs: Will sign PRO Act: Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act

She'll fight for unions, because as Vice President of the most pro-labor administration in history, she knows that unions are the backbone of the middle class. She'll sign landmark pro-union legislation, including the PRO Act to support workers who choose to organize and bargain and the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act to make the freedom for public service workers to form unions the law of the land. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Social Security: Strengthen for the long haul by taxing millionaires

Vice President Harris will protect Social Security and Medicare against relentless attacks from Donald Trump and his extreme allies. She will strengthen Social Security and Medicare for the long haul by making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share in taxes. She will always fight to ensure that Americans can count on getting the benefits they earned. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Tax Reform: 28% tax on long term capitals gains for $1M per year or more

This includes rolling back Trump's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, enacting a billionaire minimum tax, quadrupling the tax on stock buybacks, and other reforms to ensure the very wealthy are playing by the same rules as the middle class. Under her plan, the tax rate on long-term capital gains for those earning a million dollars a year or more will be 28 percent, because when the government encourages investment, it leads to broad-based economic growth and creates jobs. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

On Welfare & Poverty: First-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food

As President, she will direct her Administration to crack down on anti-competitive practices that let big corporations jack up prices and undermine the competition that allows all businesses to thrive while keeping prices low for consumers. And she will go after bad actors who exploit an emergency to rip off consumers by calling for the first-ever federal ban on corporate price gouging on food and groceries, which will build on the anti-price gouging statutes already in place in 37 states. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website KamalaHarris.com Sep 9, 2024

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