With the nation now facing the prospect of President Kamala Harris, we have to think about what a chief executive even more extreme than Joe Biden might do.
Hans Bader has done exactly that in a Liberty Unyielding post, in which he writes:
Harris wants to increase government spending even faster than Joe Biden. Harris supports spending trillions of dollars on race-based reparations, which Biden hedged on. That would be bad for the economy — foreign countries that adopted race-based reparations and race-based redistribution of wealth seriously damaged their economies by doing so, without eliminating racial gaps. Harris is a more enthusiastic supporter of student loan bailouts than Joe Biden. Biden initially doubted his power to forgive student loans, and only embarked on mass student loan forgiveness at the urging of left-wingers like Kamala Harris, over the objections of more sensible people in his administration. Business Insider notes that Treasury Secretary Janet “Yellen was skeptical of a student-loan forgiveness plan as Biden made up his mind,” according to the New York Times, while “Kamala Harris was one of the administration’s most forceful advocates of loan relief.”
I doubt that Biden was ever much of a drag on the Democratic Party’s radicals, but it appears that Harris would push their destructive ideas faster and farther. Among the worst of them is racial reparations. Bader points out:
Harris has supported using tax dollars to pay reparations to blacks, since at least 2019, when the New York Times reported on her support for reparations, which it described as a “policy that experts say could cost several trillion dollars.” Reparations could cost far more than that. Black law professors and critical race theorists have called for paying millions of dollars to each Black resident, which could cost $200 trillion. A Stanford panel called for spending $10 trillion to $12 trillion on reparations.
If you thought the escalating national debt under Biden was bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.