Donald Trump says that “Comrade Kamala” Harris’ economic plan is “full communist”. He also claims that she’s shamelessly copied his economic plan. So which is she – a communist or a plagiarist?
Of course, Harris is no communist. She’s not proposing that ownership of the means of America’s production, distribution and exchange be stripped from private interests and held in the “people’s ownership”. But here are a couple of the policies she’s embraced that gave rise to the accusation.
Illustration by Dionne Gain
Last week, she and outgoing President Joe Biden announced big cuts for seniors in the price of 10 widely used prescription drugs. Some nine million older Americans will see the price of their medications cut by between 38 per cent and 79 per cent next year, for treating maladies like diabetes, heart failure, Crohn’s disease and arthritis.
How is this possible? Because, after …