In recent weeks, Harris proposed a $50,000 tax deduction for business start-ups that CNBC reports is 10 times the amount of the current federal tax deduction.
More recently, Harris similarly proposed tax credits to spur U.S. manufacturing, according to a Reuters story about her plans.
Elaine Parker, of Job Creators Network, tells AFN she is not convinced the liberal Democrat means what she says.
Harris is "doing her best impression of a moderate and small business champion just in a desperate attempt to sway independent voters,” Parker says.
If that accusation is true, then Harris is suddenly embracing a Republican-like stance on small business and entrepreneurship just as she has done on crime, illegal immigration, gun confiscation, and fracking.
"She has pursued inflationary spending, anti-energy policies, environmental and labor regulations that have decimated small businesses," Parker says. "So, remember you have to focus on her record and not the rhetoric she's giving Americans now."
According to the Reuters story, the Democrat who says she is pro-business also supports raising the corporate tax rate to 28%. That tax rate was cut from 35% to 21% by President Trump.
Harris has also “quietly endorsed” President Biden’s tax hike proposal for high-income earners, Reuters said. That proposal would raise that tax rate to 39% from 37%.
“I don't think that ordinary Americans are going to be fooled by this act," Parker predicts. "She's really a wolf in sheep's clothing."
