Inflation and immigration remain the voters’ top concerns heading into the contest between President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris this November, and the policy platform put out by the Democratic National Convention this week would only make both problems much worse.

On inflation, Harris has embraced all of the huge spending that President Joe Biden couldn’t fit into his original inflation-causing $1.9 trillion spending plan. Remember all that free preschool, free paid leave, free child care, and free day care Biden had in his original Build Back Better plan? You know, all the stuff that centrist Democrats flinched at including in what they already knew was a bill with too much deficit spending? Well, Harris wants to spend all that money now.

Asked how she planned to pay for all this new spending before the convention, Harris rambled through a lengthy response in which she said “return on investment” four times and claimed all her new spending would “pay for itself.” This is, of course, completely untrue. While there are two decades-old studies that purportedly show that intensive investment in early childhood interventions does pay for itself, those studies were small and have never been replicated.

The largest, most recent studies, both of the federal government’s Head Start program and Tennessee’s pre-K program, both show no results or negative results for the children who participated in the programs. Far from helping children and showing a “return on investment,” in reality, the Democratic Party’s care economy only makes children and families worse off. And that is before considering that all of Harris’s new spending will only send inflation rising again.

Turning to immigration, the Democratic Party platform contains the largest amnesty program in the history of the United States, granting citizenship, welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security to the 10 million illegal immigrants who were in the country before January 2021. According to the Congressional Budget Office, granting amnesty and full benefits to these illegal immigrants would add billions to the federal deficit on top of the financial burden they are already causing state and local governments.

Then there is the question of what to do about the 3.8 million illegal immigrants who have been caught and released into the United States under the Biden-Harris administration. While they have not endorsed a date change, every Democratic Party amnesty in the past sets the date of amnesty eligibility at the date the amnesty is written. So there is every reason to think that when Harris writes her actual amnesty bill, it will include every illegal immigrant Biden let into the country, raising the total number of illegal immigrants given citizenship under the Harris regime to 13.8 million.

Worse, Harris has endorsed the Lankford-Mayorkas bill, which would codify Biden’s catch-and-release border policies. Under the Lankford-Mayorkas bill, all migrants caught illegally crossing the border could be entered into Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “alternative to detention program.” Migrants would then be free to cut off their ankle bracelets, ignore ICE, travel wherever they wanted, and wait until the Democratic Party’s next amnesty, safely knowing no effort would be made to track them down and deport them.

Aside from making inflation and immigration worse, the Democratic Party platform also raises taxes on oil and gas companies, making energy prices and everything you buy at the store more expensive. The document also calls for “environmental justice” reviews, which will make it even more expensive to build everything from highways to high-speed rail to clean energy projects.

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And then there are the tax hikes, including a rise in the corporate tax rate, which every economist will tell you leads to lower worker pay, and a new tax on unrealized capital gains, which would be destined for reversal by the Supreme Court.

Harris has made every effort to moderate her positions on immigration and government spending since she helped push Biden out of the race. The Democratic Party platform goes in the exact opposite direction, adopting far-left positions on every hot-button issue voters care about. Republicans should make every effort to tie Harris to this radical document.