Another Inflation Gauge Comes in Smoking Hot
TownhallFEB 25 2024
The Spin
Democratic narrative
Having worked alongside Pres. Biden to bring inflation to its lowest rate in three years, Kamala Harris knows exactly how to run the economy should she be elected. As president, Harris would end Trump's corporate tax cuts and actually tax billionaires, boost child care programs, and lower prescription drug costs. No matter how many times Trump calls her a "communist," voters know Harris simply wants to protect and strengthen the country's social safety net.
Republican narrative
Harris has lied for years about the true inflation rate she and Biden caused — estimated at 18% by November 2022 using traditional methods — and now she's whitewashing her record and telling Americans to vote for more of the same. She wants to spend trillions to kill the oil industry and tens of billions on public housing, and that's just a start. Her ideas are so bad that she's now copying Trump's proposals, such as no taxes on tips, but her record on boosting the IRS proves that's also a lie.
Narrative C
While Trump and Harris argue over who's going to print more money to maintain the status quo, RFK Jr. would rather not increase the debt nor raise taxes, but instead take the hundreds of billions of dollars given to the war machine every year and use it to fund college education and social security. He would also prevent corporations from out-bidding young people who want to buy a home, as well as abolish the billion-dollar subsidies for energy corporations to help stimulate smaller green energy companies. America has plenty of money, and RFK Jr. knows how to spend it properly.