Mark Matson, a financial expert and author ofExperiencing the American DreamtoldBreitbart News Saturday Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposed policies are an “American Dream destroyer.”
Maston wroteExperiencing the American Dream: How to Invest Your Time, Energy, and Money to Create an Extraordinary Life, a book on how to invest to cultivate Americans’ financial future. The book releases on Sunday.
Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle asked if the American dream is slipping away for many Americans.
Matson responded, “We have to fight for it. This is really a fight for the future of the country. Are we going to go down the socialist, Communist road and have the Communist dream? Or, are we going to have the American Dream that’s funded by capitalism and free markets and entrepreneurship?”
The author then cited aWall Street Journal study that the American dream largely includes:
Owning a home
Having a family and children
Being able to send one’s children to college
Being able to retire
“All of these things became more difficult under this administration,” Matson said.
Matson said that Harris has proposed many harmful policies, including higher taxes, price controls, and regulations, which run counter to the American dream.
He said these policies are “an American dream destroyer.”
Boyle then asked what policies a potential future Trump administration would have to enact to help Americans achieve their dream.
Matson said that they have to keep the Trump tax cuts, noting that if they expired, Americans may experience 20 to 30 percent higher taxes.
He also called to reduce capital gains and keep taxes on corporations low.
Matson said that Trump should have “capital gains stay at 20 percent or go down to zero. That’s already your money, you grew it to fulfill your family dreams. You should not be putting a 28 percent on corporations.”
With lower corporate rates, Matson said that more businesses would “want to come to America and create jobs.”
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Bereaved families, local and national dignitaries and first responders gathered in New York City on Wednesday to mark the 23rd anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump attended the annual commemoration, just hours after their fiery presidential debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening.
Joe Biden, the US president, accompanied Harris, his vice-president and now the Democratic nominee since Biden ended his re-election campaign in July after his own disastrous debate against Trump.
Biden and Harris observed the anniversary of the al-Qaida attacks on the US with visits to each of the three sites where hijacked planes crashed in 2001: the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon near Washington and a field in southern Pennsylvania.
Trump attended the event in New York with his Republican running mate, JD Vance. Trump and Harris shook hands, with tight smiles, before lining up solemnly for the ceremony.
On Tuesday night, Harris had consciously crossed the stage before the debate began and thrust her hand towards Trump, introducing herself. They had never met in person before, obliging Trump to shake hands.
After the subsequent handshake at the memorial and a brief exchange between the two presidential candidates, Harris positioned herself to Biden’s right, with the former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg between Biden and Trump, and Vance to Trump’s left.
Missing from that central group was the sitting New York mayor, Eric Adams, whose administration is caught up in a series of federal investigations.
Harris traveled to New York just a few hours after most polling declared her the winner of the debate against the Republican nominee for president in Philadelphia, with just eight weeks left before the 5 November presidential election.
No remarks from the politicians were scheduled at the site of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, still sometimes popularly known as Ground Zero, where relatives read the names of those who died.
Biden and Harris then went to Shanksville, where passengers on United Flight 93 overcame the hijackers and the plane crashed in a field, preventing another target from being hit.
Later they headed back to Washington DC and laid a wreath at the Pentagon memorial.
Almost 3,000 people were killed in the attack, with more than 2,750 killed in New York, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania; that figure excludes the 13 hijackers, who also died.
“We can only imagine the heartbreak and the pain that the 9/11 families and survivors have felt every day for the past 23 years and we will always remember and honor those who were stolen from us way too soon,” the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters onboard Air Force One on Tuesday evening.
Biden issued a proclamation honoring those who died as a result of the attacks, as well as the hundreds of thousands of Americans who volunteered for military service afterwards.
“We owe these patriots of the 9/11 generation a debt of gratitude that we can never fully repay,” Biden said, citing deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and other war zones, as well as the capture and killing of the September 11 mastermind, Osama bin Laden, and his deputy.
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US congressional leaders on Tuesday posthumously awarded the congressional gold medal to 13 of those service members who were killed in the 26 August 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul’s airport during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In New York, political tensions were high even though the event is always officially a non-partisan commemoration.
“You’re around the people that are feeling the grief, feeling proud or sad – what it’s all about that day, and what these loved ones meant to you. It’s not political,” said Melissa Tarasiewicz, who lost her father, a New York City firefighter, Allan Tarasiewicz.
Increasingly, tributes delivered in New York and the name-reading of those who died come from children and young adults who were born after the attacks killed a parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle.
“Even though I never got to meet you, I feel like I’ve known you forever,” Annabella Sanchez said last year of her grandfather, Edward Joseph Papa. “We will always remember and honor you, every day. “We love you, Grandpa Eddie.”
A poignant phrase echoes more and more from those who lost relatives: “I never got to meet you.”
It is the sound of generational change. Some names are read out by children or young adults who were born after the strikes. Last year’s observance featured 28 such young people among more than 140 readers. Young people were expected again at this year’s ceremony on Wednesday.
Some are the children of victims whose partners were pregnant. More of the young readers are victims’ nieces, nephews or grandchildren. They have inherited stories, photos and a sense of solemn responsibility.
Being a “9/11 family” reverberates through generations, and commemorating and understanding the September 11 attacks one day will be up to a world with no first-hand memory of them.
“It’s like you’re passing the torch on,” says Allan Aldycki, 13. He read the names of his grandfather, Allan Tarasiewicz, and several other people.
Reuters and the Associated Press contributed reporting
Kamala Harris Vs Donald Trump debate: Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in a virtual coin toss before their presidential debate – but that’s about all he won. The Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, seemingly bested the debate; she tried to throw Trump off his game. He repeatedly took the bait. However, there is now contention if ‘Kamala sounded a lot like Obama’.
Barack Obama, the 44th President of United States of America.
Netizens have been abuzz with speculations that Kamala Harris may have had help from former US president Obama during the ABC News Presidential debate. Kamala Harris baited Donald Trump for nearly all of the 1 hour and 45 minutes of their first and potentially only debate on Tuesday night – and Trump took every bit of it.
How could Obama have helped Harris during a live debate?
Netizens have flagged her earrings!
One X (formerly Twitter) user Aravind, has said, “I think Kamala did a great job tonight in the debate against Trump, who I think is a great orator and debator himself. But her earrings intrigued me a lot. May be because I got reminded of similar looking ones from some tech article on an earphone that looks like earrings.”
The post shared a screenshot of Nova HT Audio earphones resembling earrings. It claimed that those earphones and Kamala Harris’ earrings had an eerie similarity, fostering theories of Obama’s help.
The post shared a screenshot of Nova HT Audio earphones resembling earrings. It claimed that those earphones and Kamala Harris’ earrings had an eerie similarity, fostering theories of Obama’s help.
Another X account ‘Emergent Perspective’ posted, “If you think Kamala sounded a lot like Obama tonight…she probably did. BUSTED! Compare NOVA H1 Audio Earrings to the ones she had on tonight…”
On Tuesday, Kamala Harris had prepared extensively for their debate, and peppered nearly every answer with a comment designed to enrage former president Donald Trump.
Harris told Trump that world leaders were laughing at him, and military leaders called him a “disgrace.” She called Trump “weak” and “wrong.” She said 81 million voters fired Trump – the number that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020.
“Clearly, he’s having a very difficult time processing that,” she said.
The debate also won Kamala Harris, singer Taylor Swift’s endorsement. Swift posted on Instagram that she was backing the Democratic ticket. She signed her post “Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady” — a reference to controversial comments by Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, that have alienated many women.
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Vice President Kamala Harris is criticising former president Donald Trump over a recent controversy involving his campaign at Arlington National Cemetery, saying the military burial site is “not a place for politics”.
Ms Harris took aim at Trump on Saturday in a post on social media, writing that he “disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt”.
The US Army said a Trump staffer “abruptly pushed aside” a cemetery employee who was trying to warn his team about rules against filming in the cemetery.
The Trump campaign has disputed the cemetery’s version of events and said it received permission from the families of the fallen soldiers to film.
The incident happened on Monday, when Trump was at an event honouring 13 US military service members who were killed during the country’s withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago.
Saturday’s post marks the first time Ms Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, has commented on the controversy.
She wrote that she has visited Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia several times during her tenure as vice president, and she would never use the site for political gain.
“If there is one thing on which we as Americans can all agree, it is that our veterans, military families, and service members should be honored, never disparaged, and treated with nothing less than our highest respect and gratitude,” Ms Harris said.
“And it is my belief that someone who cannot meet this simple, sacred duty should never again stand behind the seal of the President of the United States of America.”
At a campaign rally in Michigan on Thursday, Trump hit back at those who had criticised him over the incident.
He said he had been asked to pose for a photo at the site after the memorial by family members of the soldiers who had died.
“I go there, they ask me to have a picture and they say I was campaigning,” Trump said. “The one thing I get plenty of is publicity. I don’t need that. I don’t need the publicity.”
Trump’s running mate JD Vance used the controversy to attack the Biden administration over its handling of the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying that Ms Harris “can go to hell”.
“Three years ago, 13 brave, innocent Americans died, and they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job,” Mr Vance said on Wednesday in response to questions from BBC’s US partner, CBS News.
NPR reported earlier that two members of Trump’s campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the cemetery worker aside when she tried to intervene.
Federal law prevents use of the cemetery for political campaigning and the US Army said participants were warned of the rules in advance.
A US Army spokesperson said on Thursday that “the incident was unfortunate, and it is also unfortunate that the ANC employee and her professionalism has been unfairly attacked.”
The Trump campaign has denied that a physical altercation took place at the cemetery, adding “we are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made”.
House Democrats have since asked the US Army for a report into the incident, asking for a “full account” of what happened.
