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Harris adds her policy support to her website

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by citygator, Sep 9, 2024.

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  1. Sep 9, 2024 #21
    gatordavisl

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    Feel free to add your analysis.
     
  2. Sep 9, 2024 #22
    citygator

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    People can trust Harris’ details or Trump’s details, lol.
     
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  3. Sep 9, 2024 #23
    gatorpa

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    Since I’m not voting for Trump I don’t care what he says.
    He’s not much different when it comes to details as he was 4 years ago.

    Harris on the other hand had a voting record, was on record during the 2020 primaries and now it appears she’s jumped to the middle.

    Not falling for that BS.

    I’d bet even money if she was running in a primary she wouldn’t get 20% of the Dem vote. Only reason she is doing as well as she has is because she isn’t Trump.
    Can you honestly say you would chose her over some of the other Dem candidates from 2020?

    Hell of a pickle we got here.
     
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  4. Sep 10, 2024 #24
    GatorJMDZ

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    Nope. Assuming someone has a properly aligned set of morals, it is a ridiculously easy choice.
     
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  5. Sep 10, 2024 #25
    citygator

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    I think she is fine. No matter what Democrat was up you’d have some issue with her or him. I like a lot of them and they are all human with things they do well and poorly. None of them is psychotic like Trump. If he was running as a democrat I’d be voting for Nikki or whoever they ran.
     
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  6. Sep 10, 2024 #26
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    My analysis doesn't matter. I don't have to debate her.
     
  7. Sep 10, 2024 #27
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    What Kamala really wants
     
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  8. Sep 10, 2024 #28
    92gator

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    Yep.

    ...and it's not going to bode well for sKamala.

    Honeymoon's ovuh, sweetie...

    It's finna be midnight Cinderella.

    :devil:
     
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  9. Sep 10, 2024 #29
    pkaib01

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    So what is your concern about funding the care?

    Is it that the AMA as affirmed that gender-affirming surgeries can be medically necessary for transgender individuals.

    Or is it that the captors should perform medically necessary to those held in detention and prison?

    Or is it that CNN omitted references to the 'medically necessary' caveat she made at the time?

    Do Russian bots understand gender issues?
     
  10. Sep 10, 2024 #30
    phatGator

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    The thing that gets me is this plan to build 3 million new homes that are affordable to rent or buy. Where is she going to build? In LA, Denver, Austin? Or Klamath Falls, Pueblo, Abilene?

    Will they be built on government land or will the government take private land on which to build them?

    Are they gonna be sold under market value in order to make them affordable? Will there be a lottery to get them?

    I sounds nice but is it really feasible.
     
  11. Sep 10, 2024 #31
    citygator

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    Luckily it is only 4 paragraphs so I can paste it here with a link. Its really more of a partnership with the industry to build the housing we need, both to rent and to buy, and to take down barriers that stand in the way of building new housing, including at the state and local levels.

    Harris-Walz-economic-policy-press-release.pdf (nhc.org)
    • First-Ever Tax Incentive for Building Starter Homes. A HarrisWalz Administration will propose the first-ever tax incentive for homebuilders who build starter homes sold to first-time homebuyers— alleviating the shortage of houses on the market for aspiring homeowners. This would complement the Neighborhood Homes Tax Credit that encourages investment in homes that would otherwise be too costly or difficult to develop or rehabilitate.
    • A Historic Expansion of the Existing Tax Incentive for Businesses That Build Rental Housing that is Affordable.
    • A New Federal Fund To Spur Innovative Housing Construction. A Harris-Walz Administration will propose a new $40 billion innovation fund—doubling down on the $20 billion Biden-Harris Administration’s proposed innovation fund. Like that proposal, it would empower local governments to fund local solutions to build housing. It would also go further to support innovative methods of construction financing, and empower developers and homebuilders to design and build rental and housing solutions that are affordable—with one condition: they must show they will deliver results. This fund will support the expansion of innovative local efforts, like those in Wake County, North Carolina where they are using American Rescue Plan funds to build or preserve 2,400 affordable housing units including a 100-unit development coming online at Kings Ridge and a 176-unit affordable housing development at Tyron Station. Vice President Harris will also take action to make certain federal lands eligible to be repurposed for new housing developments that families can afford.
    • Cut Red Tape and Needless Bureaucracy. These plans will build on the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to cut red tape and enable more home building to bring down housing costs—which have advanced record levels of new home construction. Pushing this forward also means streamlining permitting processes and reviews, including for transitoriented and conversion development, so builders can get homes on the market sooner and bring down costs.
     
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  12. Sep 10, 2024 #32
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    Thanks. I’m all for affordable housing, so I hope these things work. There’s still the issue of demand exceeding supply if they are priced under market value, and how to allocate that supply.

    Regardless of whether these are good or bad ideas, it is another example of the somewhat bizarro world we live in, where left is right and right is left. Incentives and tax breaks for homebuilders and cutting red tape and needless bureaucracy used to be Republican ideas. Now they are Democratic ideas. Developers used to be evil, now they’ll be heroes.

    Since most permitting and other issues standing in the way of housing developments are local, it’ll be interesting to see how the federal government can override that.
     
  13. Sep 10, 2024 #33
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    Yeah, the Republican ideas now are BSing people and lying. In order to scare up anger and stoke resentment. We've seen it for 8 years now.

    - "I'll build a wall and Mexico will pay for it!! Derrr!!!!!!!!!!!!"
     
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