OPINION: Why I’m Voting for Kamala Harris as a Small Business Owner
For lower costs and more opportunity, Kamala Harris is the best choice
The past few years haven’t been easy. As a country, we emerged slowly and unevenly from a global pandemic. Wars rage overseas and tensions have been high here at home. On top of everything, a devastating natural disaster just ripped through the western part of our state.
Through it all, there have been glimmers of hope and joy — neighbors helping neighbors, small businesses starting, families growing. But too many of us aren’t getting ahead, merely treading water instead of realizing our American Dream.
That’s why, as I weigh my options for president this fall, a candidate’s economic plan is at the forefront of my mind. And it’s clear that Kamala Harris — not Cornel West, not Jill Stein, and certainly not Donald Trump — has the best plan to make life better for middle-class families like mine.
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The Harris campaign recently released an 82-page plan that lays out her plans to lower costs and create an “opportunity economy.” It’s thorough, pragmatic, and addresses the critical needs of families like mine. Harris’ plan includes tax relief for families who have recently had a child, a down-payment assistance program for first-time homebuyers, and greater assistance for small-business owners.
In contrast, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance plan on implementing the Project 2025 agenda, which would undermine workers’ rights and hurt middle and working-class families. Their plan for an effective national sales tax on all imported daily goods would increase costs for a typical family by almost $4,000, including essentials like food, clothing, gas, and medicine.
Also, by allowing employers to stop paying hourly workers overtime, their plan would ensure workers have less freedom, autonomy, and financial security than ever before.
It might be tempting to think economic strength comes in the form of third-party candidates Cornel West or Jill Stein, but their lofty promises to end all poverty and homelessness, to guarantee free childcare and graduate school, to quadruple the minimum wage are, while well-intentioned, made without the experience or policy mechanisms to enact.
I don’t need a candidate to promise me the moon and the stars, I just need a few extra tools to help me build a better future for my family.
So when I vote, I’m voting for my family’s future. I’m voting for Kamala Harris because she has the empathy, the experience, and the plans to help us build a better middle class.
Unique George is a parent and graduate of North Carolina A&T State University. Unique has owned a small beauty and cosmetics business for over 10 years.
