Conservatives, meanwhile, already have criticized Harris’s tax plan as being prohibitively expensive at a time when annual deficits are approaching $1 trillion. Here’s a look at the policy ideas Harris hopes will carry her to the White House:$2.8 trillion middle-class tax plan. Under Harris’s plan, the federal government would pay tax credits that match a person’s earnings up to $3,000 (or $6,000 for married couples). [Almost all of Sen. Harris’s $2.8 trillion tax plan would help middle and working class, study finds]For Harris’s plan, that number is about 90 percent. A number of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have proposed plans to reform the current cash bail system, which disproportionately jails poor Americans who cannot make cash bail payments.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2019 16:40 UTC