So before I begin, I do want to say a
few words about this tragic shooting that took place this
morning in Winder, GA.
We're still gathering information about what happened, but we know
that there were multiple fatalities and injuries.
And, you know, our hearts are with all the students,
the teachers and their families, of course.
And we are grateful to the first responders and the
law enforcement that were on the scene.
But this is just a senseless tragedy on top of
so many senseless tragedies.
And it's just outrageous that every day in our country,
in the United States of America, that parents have to
send their children to school worried about whether or not
their child will come home alive.
It's senseless.
It it is.
We've got to stop it and we have to end
this epidemic of gun violence in our country once and
for all.
You know, it doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
So we will continue, of course, to, to send our
prayers and our thoughts to the families and all those
who were affected, including, you know, I, I'm going off
script right now.
But listen, I mean, you know, at the last year,
I, I started a college tour and I, I, I
traveled our country meeting with our young leaders, right?
And so it was college aged young leaders.
So I did trade schools, colleges, universities, community colleges.
By the way, I love Gen.
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But I'll tell you one of the things, one of
the things that I asked every time I went to
the auditorium, and it would be filled with these young
leader students and I'd ask them, raise your hand if
at any point between kindergarten and 12th grade you had
to endure an active shooter drill.
And the for the, for the young leaders who are
here who are raising their hand.
I'm telling you, every time the auditorium was packed and
almost every hand went up.
You know, a lot of us, I'll, I'll speak about
myself.
You know, we had, well, I grew up in California,
earthquake drills.
We had fire drills, but our kids are sitting in
a classroom where they should be fulfilling their God-given potential
and some part of their big beautiful brain is concerned
about a shooter busting through the door of the classroom.
It does not have to be this way.
And, you know, this is one of the many issues
that's at stake in this election.
What's at stake in this election is that one candidate,
Kamala Harris, wants to stop mass murder in this country,
and the other candidate, Donald Trump, and every single candidate,
Republican candidate for the Senate or the House Representatives, every
single one of them, along with Donald Trump, wants to
guarantee that American mass murderers remain the best equipped mass
murderers in the world.
That is their political mission.
Today's accused mass murderer is a 14 year old who
went into his school with an AR15 and murdered 214
year old students and two teachers.
Donald Trump said nothing about the mass murder, but he
did have his staff issue a short written statement expressing
some sympathy for the dead.
And not a single word of what to do to
stop these mass murders in our schools, to stop these
mass murders in shopping malls, to stop these mass murders
in churches, to stop these mass murders in theaters.
Not one word from Donald Trump or any Republican today
about how to stop what happened in that Georgia school
today.
Vice President Harris went to New Hampshire today, which a
Trump campaign operative recently said is unwinnable by Donald Trump.
That comment got that Trump campaigner fired from the campaign.
The vice president chose New Hampshire as the place to
describe her new economic proposals, including a focus on the
development of small business and restoring the capital gains tax
for incomes over $1,000,000 to 28%, which was the top
capital gains tax rate during the booming economic years of
the Clinton administration.
As president, one of my highest priorities will be to
strengthen America's small businesses, and here I am in New
Hampshire to announce a few elements of my plan to
do that.
So first, we're going to help more small businesses and
innovators get off the ground.
So here's the thing.
On average, it costs about $40,000 to start a new
business in America.
That is a great financial barrier for a lot of
folks, and it can hold entrepreneurs back.
And the current tax deduction for a startup is just
$5000.
OK, So then you got to make up the delta
there.
Got to figure out how you're going to do that.
Not everyone has access to that kind of wealth and
capital.
So part of my plan is we will expand the
tax deduction for startups to $50,000.
It's essentially a tax cut for starting a small business.
Second, my plan will help existing small businesses grow.
We will provide low and no interest loans to small
businesses that want to expand.
And we will, and this is very important, cut the
red tape that can make starting and growing a small
business more difficult than it needs to be more difficult
than it needs to be.
3rd, My plan will invest in small businesses and innovators
throughout America, and here's why.
We know that talent exists everywhere in our country, from
rural towns to city centers.
So that's why I support a billionaire minimum tax and
corporations paying their fair share.
And while we ensure that the wealthy and big corporations
pay their fair share, we will tax capital gains at
a rate that rewards investment in America's innovators, founders, and
small businesses.
So here's the detail.
If you earn $1,000,000 a year or more, the tax
rate on your long term capital gains will be 28%
under my plan.
Because we know when the government encourages investment it leads
to broad based economic growth and it creates jobs which
makes our economy stronger.
Now compare that to what Donald Trump plans.
He intends to cut off federal programs that give loans
to small businesses.
He plans to give billionaires massive tax cuts and to
cut corporate taxes by over a trillion dollars even as
they pull in record profits.
His plans will add more than $5 trillion to the
national debt, and that is on top of the $2
trillion tax cut he gave them when he was president
and when he exploded the deficit.
We know how to count.
And now he also wants to impose what in effect
is a national sales tax on everyday products and basic
necessities, which will skyrocket the cost for families and small
businesses and New Hampshire.
On top of all of this, if Donald Trump were
to win in November, he intends to end the Affordable
Care Act, which would significantly increase costs on small businesses
as we know.
And well, you know what?
The courts are going to handle that and we will
handle November.
How about that?
That's how I'll handle that.
How about that?
But think about it.
It wants to end the Affordable Care Act, taking us
back to a time when insurance companies could deny people
with pre-existing conditions.
You remember what that was, children with asthma, breast cancer
survivors, grandparents with diabetes.
So yeah, look, we are here to tell him and
them we are not going back.
We're not going back.
We're not going back in 5 minutes.
You just heard more policy detail from Kamala Harris than
anyone has ever heard from Donald Trump in his entire
political career.
Yesterday, the Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs issued a
warning that has been echoed by every leading economist that
the American economy could be severely crippled by Donald Trump's
tariff proposals, which Kamala Harris says would in effect be
a sales tax on Americans, which would cost the average
family $4000 a year.
Donald Trump continues to tell the lie that the tariffs
he imposed on Chinese goods were paid by China instead
of American consumers.
He told that lie again tonight in his phony Fox
town hall.
With 62 days left in the campaign, is there enough
time to teach undecided voters how tariffs actually work and
that they are paying those tariffs?