60 Minutes Interviewer Calls Out Harris for Ignoring Economy Question
“Pardon me, Madam Vice President. The question was how are you going to pay for it?”
60 Minutes will air its interview with VP Kamala Harris tonight.
The program released two clips, and man, it will be a doozy, as usual.
Bill Whitacker had to call her out over her non-answer about the economy.
No wonder this lady won’t sit down for interviews. Not only does she succeed with word salads, but she falls apart when she can’t just use the regular talking points.
Economy
Harris repeated the same old talking points and dog whistles and diverted from questions presented by Bill Whitacker.
Thankfully, Whitacker called her out when he asked her how she plans on paying for her big government ideas:
HARRIS: My plan is about saying that when you invest in small business, you invest in the middle class and you strengthen America’s economy. Small businesses are the backbone of America’s economy.
WHITAKER: Pardon me, Madam Vice President. The question was how are you going to pay for it?
HARRIS: Well, one of the things, I’m gonna make sure that the richest among us, who can afford it, pay their fair share of taxes. It is not right that teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations, and I plan on making that fair.
WHITAKER: But we are dealing with the real world here
HARRIS: But the real world includes…
WHITAKER: How are you going to get this through Congress?
HARRIS: You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I’m talking about because their constituents know exactly what I’m talking about. Their constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses.
.@60Minutes releases next clip from Harris interview.
Bill Whitaker presses Harris on how she will pay for her economic agenda. pic.twitter.com/AppgSTNVHw
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) October 7, 2024
These people live in fantasyland where money grows on trees.
Well, we know that the Treasury loves to fire up the money machine. Money machine go bbbrrrrrr!
Anyone else tired of the phrase “fair share?” I have not heard one person define “fair share.”
If you want them to pay their “fair share,” get rid of write-offs and deductions in the tax code. You’re an idiot if you don’t take advantage of them.
Also:
I'm really, really tired of politicians promising to pay for their exorbitantly expensive plans by ~taxing the rich.~ If you seized every billionaires' net worth, you could fund the government for a few months. Economically illiterate. https://t.co/Bppla9jYWG
— Billy Binion (@billybinion) October 7, 2024
Israel
Then there’s Israel and Iran.
I included the whole clip because there is so much going on with Harris’s answers. But the last part raised some eyebrows.
I emphasized the parts I talked about below the transcript:
WHITAKER: We supply Israel with billions of dollars in military aid. Netanyahu seems to be charting his own. The Biden-Harris administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire. He’s resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon. He went in anyway.
He has promised to make Iran pay for the missile attack, and that has the potential of expanding the war. Does the US have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu?
HARRIS: The aid that we have given Israel, allowed Israel to defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that were just meant to attack the Israelis and the people of Israel. And when we think about the threat that Hamas, Hezbollah presents, Iran, I think that it is without any question, are imperative to do what we can to allow Israel to defend itself against those kinds of attacks.
Now, the work that we do with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles, which include the need for humanitarian aid, the need for this war to end, the need for a deal to be done which would release the hostages and create a ceasefire, and we’re not going to stop in terms of putting that pressure on Israel and in the region, including Arab leaders.
WHITAKER: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
HARRIS: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
WHITAKER:Do we have a real close ally? In Prime Minister Netanyahu.
HARRIS: I think, with all due respect, the better question is, do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people, and the answer to that question is yes.
Monday, on a 60 Minutes election special, Bill Whitaker asks Vice President Kamala Harris if the U.S. lacks influence over American ally Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. https://t.co/TG3WOCA23A pic.twitter.com/IH6MXMjuCP
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 6, 2024
OK so the first part I emphasized. WORD SALAD. (We need a new description. I’m already tired of it.) Is she trying to blame America for the problems in the Middle East? Is she trying to blame Israel? What the hell are you saying, lady?
The second part: I saw people freaking out over her not calling Netanyahu an ally, but when I provided Professor Jacobson with the full quote, he agreed it wasn’t horrible. This is why I hate it when people don’t put the whole quote in the post because, more than likely, people won’t watch the video.
I don’t think Harris threw shade at Netantyahu. She is trying to play both sides. She cannot tick off The Squad too much and the places they represent, especially Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
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The Dems HAVE NO PLAN to fix any of the problems facing the US, partly because they are responsible for creating those problems in the first place, and secondly because their ideology has no provision for rational answers to complicated and multifaceted issues.
And Kamala is frankly such a stupid woman that she would not be able to understand, much less articulate any answers even if they existed.
The Left has only lies and smoke when discussing their actual goal, which is the transformation of the Republic into a totalitarian state. Most Americans would still resist such an ending, if they understood it.
Actually, their whole economic theory (MMT) is based on the idea that you can spend like a gold digger as long as you tax your way out of inflation.
We all know the problems with that theory when put in practice:
1. The rich (top 10%) already pay 50% of the tax revenue in this country. There’s not much more to squeeze out of them and they have mobility that the middle class doesn’t.
2. When taxes go up and revenue rises (budgets be damned), no spendy pols will curb their spending. They will see more money coming in and won’t be able to lay off of it despite the fact that it would need to be earmarked to pay off the debt in order to curb inflation.
They are gearing up to fleece everyone they can for tax money with the IRS expansion, but they won’t even use that responsibly.
The Ds may have no plans for fixing current problems. But they do have plans for creating a whole host of new problems which will require doubling the size of government to not solve.
They have no plan to fix them because those problems are their plan.
No more “word salad’? What do you call that little circle which keeps turning on your computer screen while you wait for Microsoft to finish installing “important” updates? That’s a perfect description of the usual Harris answer to a question.
On a Mac, I call it the Whirling Beach Ball of Death.
She’s so stupid its actually unbelievable.
She can’t answer questions because she hasn’t been told how to answer them. That’s what happens when you can’t think for yourself.
It’s almost like chat GPT ran for office
Latest YouGov poll shows tied race, 47/47. Their last last poll had Harris +4. Not sure you can point to one specific thing. That debate was a disaster for them and the hurricane response hasn’t helped. But, it’s clear she has an increasing problem with men, particularly minority men and I suspect it’s almost entirely driven by economics.
With respect to finding a replacement for ‘word salad,’ I think you can never go wrong with jabberwocky, gibberish and/or my personal favorite, commie gobbledygook.
Moving forward, unburdened by the past…. campaign slogan … lifted directly from Marx….
Moving on
I absolutely hate that phrase tool
Man want results. We don’t care about how something makes us feel if the damn thing doesn’t work
You’ve clearly never been a boat owner.
Or an Italian sports car owner.
National debt: $35,683,500,000,000.00
Unfunded liabilities: $219,714,000,000,000.00
It’s ok, we’re selling everything to China
Flea market bargain prices!
Can we stop with the garbage talking point that Netanyahu has resisted a ceasefire? It’s so tiring and not based on reality. Israel has agreed to pretty much every proposal put out there by this terror-appeasing administration.
Hamas, who doesn’t gaf about the so-called Palestinians, has rejected them time and time again because they don’t care. They want a wider war. That’s the objective of these terrorists. They just didn’t know that Israel would win that war.
It’s these appeasers that want to blame Netanyahu instead of the terrorists because they’re worried about losing Dearborn, MI.
If the Palestinians wanted a two-state solution that have had one 30 years ago. This is always been the case however the propagandists don’t like that line
Is that MA-dem Vice President?
Or, muh-DAMN Vice President?
It’s Madam Vice prostitute
Just like AOC, she has a degree in economics. I can’t … I just can’t say enough.
Having a piece of paper from an institution that says they didn’t fail you doesn’t equate to understanding the material.
She has an undergrad from Howard. While Howard isn’t the worst school, it’s nowhere near one of the best either (US News ranks it in the high 80s, coincidentally not far at all from Biden’s alma mater of Delaware). If you can fog a mirror, you can probably get a diploma from Howard….which says something about its student body, only 60% of which graduate.
It’s the top HBCU…soooo speshull.
Keynes did for economics what Critical Theory did forhistory.
“60 minutes interviewer calls out….”
It was more like a whisper with lots of kisses before and after.
The so-called “mainstream media” is the bought-and-paid-for propaganda arm of the Democrats. They will never seriously challenge a Dem.
The look on her face says ‘you are supposed to help me’.
An alternative to “word salad?”
How about bafflegab!
She’s just regurgitating the shit sandwich she ate.
“How are you going to pay for it” is a diversions to get Harris off the hook. Sure, it sounds “tough” but it’s benign.
The better question to ask is if we should have not spent $600B on illegal border crossers over the last 4 years and instead diverted that money towards American businesses, infrastructure and keeping inflation in check. But since we did, and the only alternative, Madam Vice President, is taxation, does that not indicate to Americans you simply don’t care about them?
OK, let’s talk fair. Why is it fair that about half the people in America pay no income taxes (or get free money back)?
I can hardly wait to be the first deplorable on my block to be relocated.
You thinking she’ll go full Pol Pot?
That would be a fun day in my neighborhood.
I prefer “word vomit” over “word salad” myself.
What’s really quite pathetic is that even going into something like 60 minutes where it was going to be mostly softballs, they didn’t seem to expect even one real question. I mean, they can’t completely softball it because they have at least a little bit of a reputation that they’re trying to protect.
A lot of Americans have been duped into believing that a constant percentage rate is “fair”. Says who? Who said that percentage is the fair measure? We all know that percentages change according to absolute values, in order to remain truly “fair” – and IN THE OPPOSITE WAY that leftists claim – the larger the nominal value the lower the “fair” percentage. Everyone knows this, innately – the larger things are the lower the percentage should be, usually, to keep things “fair”, because the nominal values become crazy and most things are not valued proportionally, but absolutely, or just increasing linearly with the nominal value.
The highest earning 1% – ONE PERCENT!! – of Americans already pay almost half of all federal income taxes.
Who would think that this is in any way unfair to the 1%? Other than being far too much for them to be paying?
Almost half of Americans pay no federal income tax, at all – with many sucking money from the feds (un-Constitutionally, I would add!).
The idea that percentage rates, somehow are inherently the measure of fairness is utterly ridiculous drivel that so many people mindlessly accept without ever even giving it a second thought. But it is completely untrue in most cases and it would be nice if people started challenging this idiocy in public debates.
It’s a question of manifestly stupid ideas, not a plan or a prediction.
Ok if you have a kid or want to make extra money
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/elon-musk-founded-america-pac-rolls-bold-program/
Any real man hates this bitch. Let’s hope there are enough left to deny her victory.
The basic Leftist solution to those problems named and others is to suspend the Constitution and rule by decree forever.
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