(DCWatchdog.com) – In much-awaited move, Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris has launched a series of policy initiatives on her campaign website, aimed at “restoring and protecting reproductive freedoms” and introducing a federal prohibition on corporate price gouging in the food sector.
Lately, media reports highlighted the absence of a policy section on the Harris-Walz campaign site, suggesting the campaign was lagging.
By this time in the 2008 campaign, Obama had already presented a detailed 33-page plan titled “Blueprint for Change,” National Review notes.
His campaign website included comprehensive policy details on 23 topics like the economy, education, health care, and homeland security.
Similarly, in 2016, Hillary Clinton’s website was densely packed with policy outlines, showcasing nearly 40 briefs detailing her stance on various issues.
Harris’s website now features an “issues” section offering strategies for a “new way forward,” which encompasses plans to “build an opportunity economy and lower costs for families,” “safeguard our fundamental freedoms,” “ensure safety and justice for all,” and “keep America safe, secure, and prosperous.”
This update was published a day before Harris is scheduled to face former president Donald Trump in the first presidential debate of the general election on Tuesday.
One of the key policies Harris is advocating for is a significant extension of her earlier critiqued price-control policy.
“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,” the website details.
Economists argue that this policy misunderstands the root causes of inflation and ignores the reality that grocery stores typically operate with single-digit profit margins.
Harris also highlights initiatives she has pursued as vice president, including her efforts to increase support for minority businesses, leading to “a tripling the Small Business Administration’s lending to Black-owned businesses, and more than doubling small-dollar lending to Latino and women-owned businesses.”
These policy details mark Harris’s initial policy introduction outside of the economic strategy she outlined last month.
Joshua Hendrickson, an associate professor of economics at the University of Mississippi, previously expressed to National Review that Harris’s campaign is “so short on details” and “so short on policy proposals” that it’s “not even clear what their overall vision is.”
He criticized her approach as haphazard, likening it to “throwing policies at the wall” without any “coherent pattern.”
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