Harris visits New Hampshire to tout her small business tax plan

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00:00As a latecomer to the race Kamala Harris has been rolling out her agenda piece by piece

00:05Focused on what she's branded the opportunity economy

00:09Her latest proposal is to provide new small businesses with a tax credit of $50,000

00:15Expanding the current tax break by tenfold. The goal says Harris is to encourage entrepreneurship

00:22So I want to see 25 million new small business

00:27Applications by the end of my first term and to help achieve this we will lower the cost of starting a new

00:35Business Harris is also pledging to give money directly to US consumers by permanently expanding the child tax credit

00:42including a

00:43$6,000 break for parents with infants and to give first-time homebuyers a leg up by providing a government contribution of

00:51$25,000 toward a down payment in

00:53Addition Harris has promised a federal ban on price gouging on everyday items including groceries

00:59We will end

01:01America's housing shortage by building 3 million new homes and rentals when it comes to housing

01:07Harris has pledged to spur the construction of millions of new homes

01:11Largely through tax incentives her campaign is trying to draw a contrast on economic policy with Donald Trump

01:18Who wants to cut the corporate tax rate and extend tax breaks to the wealthy?

01:24Harris has not explicitly said how she would pay for many of her proposals

01:27But has expressed support for President Biden's plan to raise taxes on large corporations and the rich are those making more than

01:36$400,000 a year

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