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Rocky Sonnier interview - Bayou Boudin & Cracklin - Breaux Bridge, LA
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Summer 2007
Dreharbeiten Mittelschule an der Pelsmüllerstrasse, Regieassistentin Christiane Huber im Interview mit Andrea Oestreicher, München 2012 Foto: Michèle Janata
These school kids were interviewing us and taking picture of us at the gardens. When I took a picture of them, the taller boy frowned and asked, "Why is she taking a picture of us?"
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Daniel C conducted a long talk with me and asked me to submit fun pictures!
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Backstage photography for Global Radio's Heart Essex (www.heart.co.uk) - media partner for Olly Murs & Pixie Lott in Hylands Park, Chelmsford.
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Democracy Now on the CNN Dana Bash interview of VP Kamala Harris on Harris' answer on the Gaza genocide:
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Lousy interview bodes ill for Harris/Walz campaign
Opinion by Paul du Quenoy
"I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed," replied Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in a verbose word salad when CNN's Dana Bash asked in her Thursday interview why her policy positions have changed since President Joe Biden cleared the path for her to run for president.
Bash looked curiously embarrassed for even asking such germane questions of someone seeking to be the most powerful person in the world. Harris, on the other hand, seemed confident that Bash would make no attempt to press her on any issue, likely knowing that the interview's main purpose was to offer her campaign cover from accusations of dodging media scrutiny. Accordingly, she did not explain what her "values" are, how they have led her to endorse policies significantly at odds with those she espoused before she became the de facto Democratic nominee five weeks ago, or why Americans should trust her.
CNN featured Harris' verbose and evasive response in a 90-second teaser released before the full interview, which lasted only 27 minutes. As short as the interview was, Harris' actual airtime was further reduced by media footage of her campaign and the unusual inclusion of her running mate Tim Walz, who, as CNN's own Anderson Cooper cynically noted, was there to reduce the amount of time Harris would be exposed to unscripted questioning. As some commentators have noted, seating Walz to Harris' right at a round table—and thus closer to the viewer—made her look physically small and unassuming, almost as though her presence was deliberately diminished.
When Harris did talk, she often stepped into the very traps her campaign has been trying to avoid. When Bash asked what she would do on the first day of her administration, Harris replied that she would "support and strengthen the middle class," adding that she believes Americans are "ready for a new way forward." She did not state what could be done in one day, but did raise the obvious question of why the middle class needs help after four years of an administration in which she later said she is "so proud" to be serving as vice president.
Still less did Harris explain why Americans, nearly 80 percent of whom believe they are worse off now than they were four years ago, feel they must escape the Biden-Harris legacy with a "new way forward" led by her. The pollster Frank Luntz called her answer "essentially worthless" and "not a good start."
In a similar blunder, when asked about illegal immigration across the southern border—one of the most important issues to voters this year—Harris boasted of having taken on the issue as California's attorney general. But she apparently forgot that as vice president, Biden placed her in charge of containing migration and that her solemn "Do Not Come" admonition to migrants was subsequently ignored by at least 7.2 million migrants who are now here.
Harris got into deeper rhetorical trouble when Bash moved on to environmental issues. The CNN host noted that the Democratic candidate flip-flopped on her opposition to fracking—approval of which will be vitally important in Pennsylvania, a must-win swing state—and on the Green New Deal, which Harris once supported but says she no longer does. "We can do what we have accomplished thus far," Harris declared in a bizarre tautology, adding that "the climate crisis is real...an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time." She did not say what "metrics" we must apply or why, but are there deadlines that can be set in any way other than "around time"?
Walz was scarcely more impressive. When Bash asked about apparent false statements he has made about his military service, he guiltily replied that "my record speaks for itself" before meandering into a weird digression about how much he cares about school shootings. When Bash pressed him on the specific issue of whether he had made misstatements about having served in a war zone, Walz even less comfortingly replied that "my grammar is not always correct." His answers on his DUI arrest and family fertilization treatments were equally petty and evasive.
The baleful results are already trickling in. Betting odds on the presidential election's outcome shifted on Friday from a slight advantage for Harris to parity with Trump. The pollster Nate Silver shifted his forecast from a slight Harris lead in the electoral college results to a slight Trump lead. Harris' bounce in swing states seems to be receding. If Republicans want more movement in that direction, all they need to do is to keep Harris talking. She will almost certainly avoid that as much as possible, but American voters deserve to hear her.
Paul du Quenoy is President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute. The views expressed as the writer's own.
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Harris breaks with Biden on capital gains tax, proposing a smaller increase
Wed September 4, 2024
CNN — Vice President Kamala Harris proposed increasing the long-term capital gains tax rate to 28% for wealthy Americans during an economic speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday, breaking with the policy laid out by President Joe Biden in his 2025 budget by suggesting a lower rate.
The current long-term capital gains tax rate – 20%, plus an additional 3.8% tax on higher earners – is paid when an investment is sold, or gains are realized. The Biden budget proposes raising that rate to the top rate he wants to levy on ordinary income – 39.6% – for households with taxable income over $1 million. Harris, the people familiar with the matter say, believes 39.6% is too high.
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Donors Quietly Push Harris to Drop Tax on Ultrawealthy
Vice President Kamala Harris’s fund-raising has benefited from a surge of interest from Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
August 29, 2024
Donors to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign are pushing her to reconsider supporting a proposed tax on the wealthiest Americans, as some Wall Street and Silicon Valley executives try to reshape the Democratic nominee’s governing agenda.
Ms. Harris’s campaign last week said she supported the tax increases included in President Biden’s latest White House budget proposal. One of those plans would require Americans worth at least $100 million to pay taxes on investment gains even if they have not sold the stocks, bonds or other assets that have appreciated.
Under the plan, those Americans would owe a 25 percent tax on a combination of their regular income, like wages, and so-called unrealized gains. The so-called billionaire minimum income tax could create hefty tax bills for wealthy individuals who derive much of their wealth from the stocks and other assets they own.
The proposal has hit a nerve with some of the donors who have flocked to supporting Ms. Harris after Mr. Biden dropped out of the presidential race, according to seven people familiar with the conversations.
Some have directed their complaints to the campaign’s advisers and top allies in the business community who are perceived to be in her inner circle. At least one top donor close to Ms. Harris has raised the issue with her in a private conversation, encouraging her to instead tax the ability of the ultrawealthy to borrow against their wealth.
Allies and staff of Ms. Harris have defended the plan to business leaders in private conversations, explaining that the tax would apply to only a small slice of wealthy Americans and could be delayed for investments that are not easily sold, according to the people familiar with the conversations.
Still, some donors close to Ms. Harris do not believe she is that committed to the idea. “In my interactions with them, the key is she focuses on her values and is not an ideologue about any particular program,” Mark Cuban, a billionaire and the former principal owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, said in an interview. “From what I’ve been told, everything is on the table, nothing’s been decided yet.”
A campaign adviser said Ms. Harris supported the billionaires minimum tax but was open to alternative ways for substantially raising taxes on ultrawealthy Americans. Charles Kretchmer Lutvak, a spokesman for the Harris campaign, said in a statement that Ms. Harris believed in creating a more fair tax system.
“Vice President Harris believes billionaires and large corporations should pay their fair share in taxes, like everyone else,” he said. “They should have to pay a minimum tax rate because it’s not right that they pay a lower income tax rate than a teacher or firefighter.”
Aaron Levie, the chief executive of the cloud-storage company Box, who has put $30,000 into her campaign and said he plans to give more, said he and other Silicon Valley leaders he had spoken with saw the proposal as “quite punitive.”
“There’s optimism that this can’t possibly be real,” Mr. Levie said. “Most people are waiting to hear from the Harris campaign. Is this a real proposal that is actually being pushed for — or was this something that was inherited from Biden?”
The pushback comes amid growing optimism among lobbyists and donors that Ms. Harris is adopting a friendlier approach to business concerns than Mr. Biden. Some have said privately that they feel that Ms. Harris’s policy positions are less set in stone than Mr. Biden’s were, allowing for outside pressure to be more effective.
In her speech at the Democratic National Convention last week, Ms. Harris said she would create an “opportunity economy" and provide support to entrepreneurs and “founders,” a word in a carefully constructed speech that some attendees saw as targeted toward assuaging wealthy business leaders in Silicon Valley.
“She said founders. I’m good,” Mr. Levie joked on social media during her speech.
Ms. Harris once represented Silicon Valley as a senator from California, and her campaign has been intentional in its opening weeks about delegating staff to tend to the area in a way that Mr. Biden did not. The campaign has encouraged the formation of affinity groups, such as VCs for Kamala, and has hired multiple Bay Area-based fund-raisers, including Stefanie Roumeliotes, a San Francisco political operative, with stronger ties to lure in major tech givers. Ms. Roumeliotes has been at work to set up a group, Tech for Harris, that is meant to recapture some of the Obama-era enthusiasm from billionaires in Silicon Valley.
Ms. Harris has also taken steps to better appeal to the crypto community, which has grown significantly more political and right-wing during the Biden presidency, and her campaign team has met with cryptocurrency executives, according to a person familiar with the conversations.
Those efforts have helped fuel a gigantic fund-raising surge that has netted the Harris campaign at least $540 million in the weeks since she came to the top of the ticket.
The billionaire minimum income tax could be particularly costly for ultrarich tech executives who derive their wealth from owning slices of companies they helped start. Rather than selling their shares of companies, triggering taxes, those Americans can take out tax-free loans backed by the stock they own to finance their lifestyles.
The VCs for Kamala group — which includes Reid Hoffman, a founder of LinkedIn; Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures; Ron Conway, a well-known investor; and the billionaire Chris Sacca — surveyed its members about various public policy issues. Roughly 75 percent of respondents agreed with the statement “taxing unrealized capital gains will stifle innovation,” according to a document viewed by The New York Times. The survey otherwise showed support for Ms. Harris’s agenda.
Investment income has long received preferential tax treatment in the United States, and taxing appreciation on unsold assets would represent a fundamental change in the tax code. Progressive Democrats see the ability of wealthy Americans to pay no tax on their unrealized capital gains as an unfair loophole, and Mr. Biden’s budget includes several other ideas that would change how investments are taxed.
Some progressives have so far said they are unworried about signs that Ms. Harris is adopting more moderate rhetoric about economic issues, maintaining that she has been a key partner in crafting Mr. Biden’s agenda.
The ambitious tax proposal would face an uphill climb on Capitol Hill, where Republicans and some Democrats are skeptical of changing how capital gains are taxed. That dynamic has helped ease some of the concerns on Wall Street about the idea, said Charles Myers, a fund-raiser for Ms. Harris and the chairman and founder of Signum Global Advisors.
“In my world, yes, I do hear about it and there is concern,” he said. “I think almost every person who would raise it as a concern understands that it would never pass Congress even if it’s a Democratic sweep.”
Mr. Myers said he had also heard concerns about some of the other tax proposals included in Mr. Biden’s budget, including raising the corporate rate to 28 percent from 21 percent and quadrupling a tax on stock buybacks to 4 percent from 1 percent. He expects that moderate Democrats in the Senate could sink some of those ideas, too.
Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, who studies corporate leadership at the Yale School of Management, said he had raised issues about taxing unrealized capital gains with members of Ms. Harris’s campaign team. He said the campaign did not want to publicly distance itself from the idea. “They don’t want to antagonize the populist support they need to get through the elections and make a big issue of it,” he said.
Those ideas and others will come into play next year, when Washington takes a fresh look at the tax code. Many of the tax cuts Mr. Trump signed into law in 2017 are set to expire after next year, and many Democrats want to both raise taxes on high earners and corporations and also extend tax cuts for middle-class Americans. Imposing the 25 percent minimum tax on Americans worth more than $100 million could raise roughly $500 billion in tax revenue over a decade, according to the Treasury Department.
In 2008 Veronika and José were interviewed by Jan Middendrop for the monthly popular series "Creative Characters" by MyFonts. The originally digital interview, was included in the first volume of type-designer interviews spanning two years, with expanded case histories, behind-the-scenes images and further examples of fonts in use.
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Interview with the founder of Filmforum and an early advocate for alternative and underground film programming, Terry Cannon. Shooter = Andrew Schuler, Interviewer = Adam Hyman
The arts awards project. I taught the children how to film and set them loose to interview staff and children about the new school.