MSNBC’s Ruhle Not Satisfied with Kamala Harris’ Answer on Economy: ‘She Doesn’t Answer the Question ... She Says We Just Have To Do It’

RUHLE: “Expanding that child tax credit, or you mentioned housing before, giving that extra money for a first home. If you can’t raise corporate taxes or if GOP takes control of the Senate, where do you get the money to do that? Do you still go forward with those plans and borrow?”

Harris: “Well — but we’re going to have to raise corporate taxes and we’re going to have to raise — we’re going to have to make sure that the biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share. That’s just it. It’s about paying their fair share. I’m not mad at anyone for achieving success. But everyone should pay their fair share and it is not right that the teachers and the firefighters that I meet every day across our country are paying a higher tax than the richest people in our country.”

RUHLE: “Bill Gates just said it this week, if he was in charge of taxes, he would have paid more. But how do you find that line to make sure corporations are paying their fair share, but they’re not leaving our country?”

Harris: “Well, listen, I work with a lot of CEOs. I have spent a lot of time with CEOs. And I’m going to tell you that the business leaders who are actually part of the engine of America’s economy agree that people should pay their fair share. They also agree that when we look at a plan such as mine that is about investing in the middle class, investing in new industries, investing in bringing down costs, invest in entrepreneurs like small businesses, that the overall economy is stronger and everyone benefits.”

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Wallace: “Talk about that answer.”

RUHLE: “I do. But here’s what’s a little tricky. She doesn’t answer the question around, if the GOP is controlling the Senate, if she can’t raise corporate taxes, where is she going to get the money from? You know, to expand the child tax credit and do all the things she wants to do. And she says we just have to do it. And that’s great. And that’s a campaign promise. But the issue is, if it means we’re just going to borrow again, then what we’re doing is we’re just never addressing the deficit. And back in the days when you were a proud Republican, debts and deficits mattered. Now, I said this the other day, she is running for president, not perfect. As it relates to the deficit, Donald Trump is going to balloon it significantly bigger than Vice President Harris will, but that is an overall issue that we’re never — it’s like the American people have forgot, or we no longer think that debt and deficits matter. They will at some point as they balloon. So, she’s saying it doesn’t matter, we’re going full steam ahead. And, I mean, I don’t fault her for it because the American people aren’t prioritizing saying you have to focus on this. And as much as she’s not focused on it, Donald Trump’s not in a much bigger way. And that is the person she’s running against.”