Absurd to say Trump is more qualified than Harris

Sep 16, 2024
Sep 16, 2024 Updated Apr 14, 2025
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Editor,

In response to Ed Kahl’s “Why Kamala is unqualified to be president” letter; I don’t agree with Ed’s assessment.

(11) comments

edkahl Sep 16, 2024 1:17pm

I for got to mention that Kamala Harris has plans to out spend Joe Biden whose spending produced a 40 year inflation high with the so called “Inflation" Reduction Act. Kamala is an inveterate socialist raised by Marxist parents and her spending plans would open the door to raising income taxes to European levels of 65%. Kamala's combined inflation and tax increases would significantly erode the purchasing power of all Americans and devastate our economy.

Dirk van Ulden Sep 16, 2024 1:55pm

Ed - you may want to augment your statement that some Europeans bay a marginal tax rate 0f 65%. But, if you have not spent anytime there, you probably are not aware that they are getting a lot back for their taxation. Better infrastructure, reasonable healthcare, lower cost secondary education and generally devoid of crime. Our effective tax burden is quite high and we don't see the results in our daily lives as do the Europeans. Our taxes are squandered through labor unions and special interests, many of them donors to ensure political outcomes. That is very American, money and politics. With Harris in power all of that 65% will vanish in the pockets of her benefactors.

Dirk van Ulden Sep 16, 2024 9:57am

Hey Mike - have your read the news lately? "Let Russia, China or Hamas try to intimidate us; I believe Kamala Harris can effectively and intelligently put them in their place, too" . They have intimidated us for the last three years. What makes you think cheap talk from a 4th grade-caliber candidate will make a difference for the next 4 years? I also wonder why nobody checked whether Harris was wired during the debate. Her performance was not her usual self. Obama even admitted once that he could steer anyone with an ear piece. I realize that this is a sensitive topic but I have my suspicions.

Tafhdyd Sep 16, 2024 12:42pm

Dirk,

I am glad that you admit Kamala is two years ahead of the 2nd grade petulant child, Donald. I am sure you can see how easy it is to fluster DJT and send him into an uncontrollable rage of lies just by teasing him about his crowd sizes.

Dirk van Ulden Sep 16, 2024 1:46pm

Taffy - I believe Trump was totally unprepared for the typical attorney strategies. Harris is an attorney by trade, a hired gun who will do or say anything a client tells her what to. She has no personal convictions and rattles of what she has been told. Any attorney will corner you and me in no time, that is what they are trained to do. Trump should have known better.

Tafhdyd Sep 16, 2024 11:18pm

Dirk,

Yes, Trump should have known better and I am sure he did know better but he can't control his emotions being a narcissist that only thinks he is entitled to praise and adoration. Do you really want someone so emotionally unstable to be president of the USA? Our foreign adversaries can see how unstable he is also. Do you really want to go to war over "crowd size"?

Terence Y Sep 17, 2024 8:49am

Yawn, snore…more throwaway comments from Taffy. Hey Taffy, Trump has already been President and there were no new wars during our great President Trump’s presidency. Perhaps Trump being what you describe as “unstable” is an asset unlike Biden/Harris who both took two knees and gifted Afghanistan to the Taliban. What are they, incompetent? As for war, it is a much higher possibility now with the current folks in office than ever before. Please join us in the present and to borrow from your usual shtick, not your “fantasy” world.

Tafhdyd Sep 17, 2024 12:13pm

Terence,

I have heard there’s some cats and dogs missing around the Bay Area. Are you stocking your freezer for the winter?

Terence Y Sep 16, 2024 9:14am

Yawn, snore…Another day, another version of the Democrat playbook from Mr. Hagmaier, where he attempts to pass off debunked talking points as a positive for Harris. Sorry, Mr. Hagmaier, why would we bother with a candidate whose only policies of note copy our great President Trump’s policies? Why bother with the middleman (middlewoman in this case) with a cheap imitation when you can get the real thing in a proven leader who has already Made America Great Again? Don’t forget, Putin supports Kamala. Don’t settle for less, vote for Trump to Make America Great Again. As for your expensive bible and NFT digital trading card… of course they’re expensive (just about everything is more expensive) thanks to Biden/Harris’s America Last inflation increases. To borrow from FFGig (who I haven’t heard from in a while – I hope he’s okay), “Wow...so many words. So much garbage.”

Not So Common Sep 16, 2024 9:10am

Well Mike, you got one seal to clap for your distortions and lies, Jorge chimed in right on cue. Putin loves Trump so much that Putin endorsed cackling Kamala, did you forget or are you just uninformed?

And with respect to your lies about tax cuts, below are the tax brackets before and after Trump's tax cuts.

2017 Tax brackets 2019 Tax brackets

10% up to $19,400 0% - $9,700

15% $19,401 - $75,900 12% - $9,701 - $78,950

25% - $75,901 - $153,100 22% - $78,951 - $168,400

28% - $153,101 - $233,350. 24% - $168,401 - $321,450

33% - $233,351 - $416,700 32% - $321,451 - $408,200

35% - $414,701 - $470,000 35% - $408,201 - $612,350

39% - $470,001 - above 37% - $612,351 - above

A married person in 2017 whose taxable income was $75,000 would have paid $10,387 in taxes and in 2019 would have paid $7,836 in taxes. FYI - $7,836 is less than $10,387, thus he / she paid $2,551 less in taxes and as a percentage it is 24.55% less.

If you have an iota of interest in informing yourself, follow this link to the Heritage Foundation. https://www.heritage.org/taxes/report/modeling-the-effects-the-trump-individual-tax-cut

Jorg Sep 16, 2024 6:57am

Thanks for a timely rebut!

It makes us wonder if Putin has given Trump an ultimatum: Either YOU destroy America, or I'll expose everything I know about you, - and destroy YOU!

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