Kamala Harris, trying desperately to separate herself from her (remarkably unpopular) boss, Joe Biden, and the administration she has loyally served for almost four years, has settled on a new campaign slogan: “A New Way Forward.” A quick review reveals, though, that Harris’s proposals don’t offer much in the way of “new,” or “forward” – they’re the same tired, liberal, Big Government clichés Democrats have been offering for years. Her plans add up to the same thing we’re used to seeing from Democrats before her – more spending, higher taxes, and higher prices, with more power in Washington and less freedom for you.
Start with her most obvious Big Government proposal – Vermont socialist Senator Bernie Sanders’ single-payer system healthcare proposal, which would have eliminated private health insurance for the roughly 200 million individuals in the United States presently covered by it, and replaced it with a government-run system that was estimated to cost a jaw-dropping $33 trillion over a decade. Just months after being sworn in to her first term in the U.S. Senate, Harris signed on as a cosponsor of that budget-busting, freedom-destroying legislation that would have upended one-sixth of the U.S. economy and put government bureaucrats between........