Gov. Glenn Youngkin on the Truth About How Kamala Harris' Proposed Policies Would Hurt All Americans

so you are a very successful man and you know something about the economy because while you started off like our son right now is working as a bus boy uh and you were basically that level when you first entered the workforce but then went on to uh chair the caral group and made a bunch of money on your own self-made man then you funded your own campaign and ran for governor and one in Virginia as a conservative in what I said as I said is a increasingly Blue State can I ask you about what appear to be KLA Harris's uh tax plans for Americans because this is something that you know a lot about how to get an economy going what makes sense what would make businesses Thrive and higher and what we've heard so far is that she is adopting Joe Biden's most recent proposals The Wall Street Journal had a report about this yesterday which would raise taxes and I mean raise them on the so-called rich and rich is anybody making more than $400,000 a year which means small business owners uh the the taxes would go up quote sharply on some high income individual some top marginal tax rates would reach the highest point since 1986 saying that the rates would go for individuals um up to 44.6% up to 44.6% which is just huge I mean they're already at 39% not to mention what would happen on capital gains taxes so if you make any money in the market business income all those taxes are going up corporations would face a 28% tax rate up from 21% large corporations would pay 21% minimum tax up from 15% and she even wants to tax unrealized capital gains so money it looks like you made on paper but you didn't cash in the stock so you didn't actually make those things uh on those who have very high net worths um what will this do to the economy if she gets that through well let me begin that I believe that uh starting as a bus boy is a great place to start and so I think your son has got a bright future in front of him uh I firmly believe that because there's dignity in work and I think one of the realities in life is that uh work is not only a good thing but uh we need more people working across the Commonwealth of Virginia and across America uh and when people are able to keep more of their hard-earned money in their pockets uh they in fact want to work harder and on top of that they spend uh and this is at the heart of the misguided tax policy that the liberal left has consistently promoted I mean at the end of the day what they want to do is raise taxes they just want to raise taxes they want to raise them on everybody and let's not be confused a tax increase on corporations will translate into a tax increase for all Americans when product prices go up uh there is a real belief that KL Harris will not not renew the great tax reform reform that happened under President Trump's first term in the tax cut and jobs act uh and not renewing all of that great tax legislation that facilitated unprecedented economic growth will once again be a broad-based tax increase on all Americans um the reality is that we need to make sure that we're working to be efficient at the government level to stop the runaway spending to invest in the most important things and to allow Virginia and Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money in their pockets you know Megan when I came into Virginia uh Virginia was suffering uh we were bottom third in the nation in job growth uh we were uh bottom 10 in the nation getting our schools back open we had seen small businesses closed left right and center and for nine straight years we'd seen more Virginians move away than move here from the other 49 states uh there was a real Challenge and one of the first things we did was one Proclaim that we open for business but two go to work to provide tax relief uh and during our during our first two and a half years we've seen $5 billion dollar of tax relief and we we already have another three billion in the works that has been passed that that voters were realize and I want to give them more because the system works when they can keep more money in their pocket there's more people who are hired there's more people that are working and on top of that then there's more receipts at the state level which gives us the ability to reduce taxes again and invest in our most critical topics I mean I have to say that we've had record investment in education record investment in law enforcement record investment in behavioral health record investment in cleaning up our streams and rivers and our bays and we've done all of that with record tax relief because we have record employment this is a very basic simple truth that when we have more people engaged in our eom who are keeping more money in their pocket than the economy grows and yes that provides more resources in order to invest but when we raise taxes when we take money out of people's pockets when we penalize companies for doing well we in fact provide the opposite incentive and that is what the Biden Harris Administration and K Harris wants to do in a go forward basis which is going to be severely damaging to the US economy and to American families yeah you think about you know if if a small business owner employs five people and he sees his taxes go up by these margins is he just going to suck it up or is he going to lay somebody off so that the business continues to be able to pay its bills I mean that just it makes common sense but she just wants to style it as we're going to get the evil rich people we'll protect the working class if you're under 400,000 you don't have to worry about it you see I'll protect you but that just ignores motivations for corporations and the men and women who lead them well and I'll repeat that a tax increase is not limited to just those that it's thinking it's raising taxes on raising taxes on corporations Across America will increase product prices and will drive inflation it just will we know that and when we see Americans 66% of Americans today already living paycheck to paycheck when they go to the grocery store and it's a gut punch every time they're trying to feed their families when they're trying to buy a home and all of a sudden the prospect of of that American dream is so far away from anything they could realize that they abandon hope and in living that American dream uh we know we have to do something different you know in in Donald Trump's first Administration we had high growth and low inflation we had more people lifted out of Po of poverty than ever we saw more Americans see a Pathway to buying a home mortgage rates were incredibly low uh and today we see runaway inflation that silent Thief truly stealing the uh hard-earned money from so many Virginians and Americans we've got to get back to economic reality and the reality is that we if we raise taxes on Americans then we in fact are going to damage economic Prosperity if we can continue to pursue policies that understand that it's Americans money not the governments it's Virginians money not the government then we can charge a path forward or chart a path forward that will unleash economic Prosperity we've seen it happen under Donald Trump we've seen the opposite happen under Joe Biden and this is a very clear comparison of two track records the kamla Harris track record and the Donald Trump track record and I'm telling you that given the fact that the economy is the number one Topic in America today people are going to want the Donald Trump track record there's there's you know she's been trying her level best to not really show us exactly what the policies are but this Embrace of Biden's tax policy is one of the things we've learned um you've been trying to sound the alarm on some of these things in Virginia and Beyond and one of the things you're doing there's a lot I want to talk to you about that you're doing in Virginia that is I think will be very exciting to a lot of our audience but one of the things you've just done is try to clean up the Virginia voting roles to try to purge them of dead people right on and people who are not American citizens which should not be controversial but lo and behold you found a lot of names that needed to go well there's a basic principle here which is American elections should be decided by citizens of America Virginia elections should be decided by citizens of Virginia and uh we went to work with the recognition that the voter the the the Motor Voter law that was passed decades ago um opened up a risk and whether through purpose or accident uh non-citizens are able to register to vote and unfortunately uh it has been left unattended for a while I'm very very pleased with speaker Johnson's efforts to pass legislation to force uh the the the uh proof of citizenship and order to register to vote but in Virginia what we did was go grab uh simple data analytics and there are lots of data sets from the Social Security Administration to all the data we have about Virginia in the DMV and use those to cross reference citizens and non-citizens and when we did that what did we find 6,300 noncitizens who were registered to vote um we took the same practice with regards to Virginia who had sadly passed away or moved away and last year we found nearly 880,000 folks on the voter roles that had sadly passed away but shouldn't have been on the voter rules um I I issued an executive order a couple weeks back that codified all of these practices and in fact now mandates that on a daily ba basis we are scrubbing our voter roles as we head into early voting uh in September this is very straightforward American election should be decided by American citizens the other thing that we really felt strongly about is that the processes of counting votes need to be well understood and trusted we have paper ballots in Virginia we have counting machines no voting machines uh we are not connected to the internet uh we have great custody practices I want to make sure that our ballot boxes are are are secured 24 by7 and I also want to make sure that all Virginians know this and that if non-citizens are voting it is in fact a a a a a a chargeable offense and you'll be arrested and all of this went through my executive order so that all Virginia can feel confident that they can trust their elections the bottom line is as we look forward I've just encouraged all governors to do the exact same thing I've been pleased because I've seen a number of of States really take similar actions so that we can provide the kind of confidence in this most important election that it deserves if you did not vote for this economic downturn and who did well we know who did and the high inflation you might want to do something about it right now you're paying for it at the pump the grocery store growing stacks of unpaid bills sitting there Financial stress can be crushing and one solution could be dwith debt.com done withth debt created new aggressive strategies designed to get you out of debt 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