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Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to unveil new proposals meant to boost small businesses and entrepreneurs ahead of a campaign speech Wednesday in New Hampshire, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

With days until her first debate with former president Donald Trump, Harris is aiming to draw a contrast with the GOP nominee’s calls for a lower corporate tax rate, the people said. Advisers to the campaign have also discussed including plans to bolster the safety net, such as through child-care or paid leave expansions, alongside tax proposals, although it is unclear whether those or other policies will be in Wednesday’s announcement. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe details not yet made public.

The plans will help bring Harris’s economic policy vision into focus as her team tries to assemble a presidential campaign at a breakneck pace since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. Harris has thus far largely called for preserving the overall direction of Biden’s policies, which have embraced a more aggressive role for federal intervention in the economy than his recent Democratic predecessors supported. Her first set of economic policy proposals, released last month, struck a populist tone, calling for major new housing subsidies, a $6,000 child benefit for newborns and the first federal ban on price gouging in the grocery and food sectors.

The new focus on small businesses and entrepreneurs, however, is probably aimed in part at reassuring voters who believe Harris is too liberal. Outside advisers to the campaign have eyed a mixture of tax credits and grants, which would aim to counteract the perception that Democrats are bad for business while still criticizing Trump’s corporate tax cut as a break for large firms.

A Harris campaign spokesman declined to comment on the upcoming package, the precise contents of which remain unknown. The Harris campaign also released a new campaign advertisement Tuesday, its fourth focused on the economy, attacking Trump for aiming to give tax cuts to corporations.

Roughly 62 million U.S. workers are employed by a “small business,” typically defined as having 500 employees or fewer. The White House has touted record numbers of new business applications during the first three years of the Biden administration, with Black and Latino business ownership growing at the fastest pace in more than a decade. The administration has taken credit for this small-business boom, although the rise of remote work during and after the pandemic also probably played a key role.

“The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented small-business and start-up boom that nobody saw coming,” said John Lettieri, president and chief executive of the Economic Innovation Group, a nonpartisan policy organization. “There’s been precious little from any policymaker to harness this and keep it going.”

Republicans have assailed the Biden administration’s record on business, arguing that its regulatory push through various federal agencies has stifled innovation and growth. The 2017 Trump tax cuts slashed the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, while also cutting individual rates and doubling the standard deduction paid by most taxpayers. Trump has talked about lowering the corporate tax rate again to as low as 15 percent. The 2017 law also created a 20 percent deduction for what are known as S-corporations — including many small businesses — that pass along their corporate income to individuals, which is set to expire in 2025.

It is unclear whether the upcoming policy announcement will detail Harris’s overall vision for the nation’s tax code. The Harris campaign has previously told reporters that it supports the roughly $5 trillion in tax plans outlined in the White House budget. Some outside advisers to the campaign have called for Harris to include versions of the billionaire tax and higher tax on corporations previously endorsed by Biden.

Harris has a large menu to choose from when formulating a policy agenda for bolstering small firms. Her options include targeted tax credits for firms below a certain size; eliminating red tape for new business formation; taxpayer support to the retirement plans of small companies; grants to nonprofit lenders in lower-income and minority communities; and technical support for smaller manufacturers.
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mandatorylurk said:
Kamabla likely drunk driving in 2011 and paralyzed a girl in SF.

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The victim herself is speaking out? Isn't this kind of a big deal?

mandatorylurk said:
edit: Trump's talk with the CIA robot. The comments in the youtube section are just reddit levels of "I am very smart"


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I knew that was going to happen soon, after he had Ivanka on a few weeks ago.
Big win for Trump, going on all these very popular podcasts.
 
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mandatorylurk said:
Kamabla likely drunk driving in 2011 and paralyzed a girl in SF.
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I wouldn't be surprised if she's driven drunk before but the voices in the video sound like AI to me. Maybe it's just weird quality audio or I'm going full schizo though.
Need more solid proof. Show me the hospital bills and that kamala was in the area at the time.
 
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AnitaSarsleezian said:
Same reason I blame why movies and everything have gone to shit. Now Gen Xers are in their 50s and 60s. We're the CEOs and the heads of networks and film studios. And we're so fucking infantilized and stuck in our little nostalgia bubbles that all we can churn out is reboots of shit from our childhood. He man cartoons. Endless GI Joe and Marvel movies. Let's spit out more ghostbusters movies! Let's even latch on to smaller properties from our childhood like Jem! I mean, fuck, there's a Goonies sequel set for release next year. People complain that there's no originality coming out of pedowood, I'm pretty sure that my generation's obsession with their childhood and that all they can do is desperately try to recreate it, is probably a big factor.
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This doesn't help, but the real reason entertainment has gone to shit is two fold.

First, the writers strike of 2007. This did untold damage by both removing talented and experienced writers and replacing them with retarded wet-ink-diplomaed english majors, but also taught the studios that "Literal Faggots and their Allies will consoom and boost anything as long as its fag-friendly". This dovetailed nicely with the fat liberal indoctrinated retarded english majors as they'd do ANYTHING corporate ask of them: rewriters, rework scenes, include this or that because the test audiences wanted it, signed away rights, didn't press for royalties... ANYTHING just so long as they were able to put fags, dykes, queers, niggers, and trannies into media.
You could put in 20% of the writing effort and make 60% of the money, so why deal with writers when you can just make a secondary character a fag?

Second is the expense of movies. Investors don't want to take risks with 500 million dollars so everything is run through the corpo blandifier. The reason you see endless reboots and remakes is because its "safe" . The reason you see past-their-prime star of old being trotted out to stand before the camera trying not crumble into dust is because of courting foreign audiences.
Back in the day you had to give the Producer's sisters a speaking part. Now you have to appease the market research focus groups.
of course the irony is that by running everything through the blandifier, its now starting to assure that the film will flounder.


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The first people I ever met who had massive collections of children's things they were obsessed with were Gen Xers who were either obsessed with Star Wars, the X-Men, or both. Maybe selection bias.
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I'm not saying this hasn't worsened since GenX, but GenX didn't develop it.
What has changed is numbers and how open they are about it. Also that there was just simply more merch to be had.
See: Faggots now vs. the 80s. There were plenty of buttfuckers around in the 80s, they were just more discreet about it because it wasn't a socially approved lifestyle. Now you have sodomites in leather harnesses blowing each other in the middle of times square being praised for "being so brave".

Again, manchildren aren't new. What IS new is the fact that instead of this being a minor facet of your personality you kept private or with only a very select few people, its now an entire personality. (again, see: Faggots)
 
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