DAN MCLAUGHLIN: Every time Kamala Harris opens her mouth, she sounds like an idiot, spewing meaningless word salads, dressed with shameless hypocrisy… No wonder all her good ideas are stolen from Trump!

Kamala Harris has now experienced little more than a wave of relief for an entire month after Joe Biden’s departure.

Finally, on Friday she presented a piece of policy aimed at US finances.

Judging from the first set of economic proposals, Kamalanomics is a bad joke.

It’s warmed-over Bidenomics — and worse, she’s pretending America can expect anything different if they elect her.

“A loaf of bread costs 50 percent more today than it did before the pandemic,” Harris told a crowd in North Carolina. “Ground beef is almost 50 percent more expensive.”

Yes, and you’ve had three and a half years to do something about it while you were running the country as vice president. What’s stopping you from doing something about it now?

Harris won’t say.

Has Bidenomics failed?

Harris won’t say.

Instead, she continues to insist that the Biden-Harris administration is more aligned than ever.

“We love you, Joe,” she sings with that trademark grimace, as if she hadn’t just stabbed her old boss in the back.

She continues to insist that real economic progress has been made and that the US economy is the “strongest in the world.”

But how does she reconcile that with rising costs that are, in her own words, “still too high,” or with exploding “health care costs,” or with people being “exploited in the housing market,” or with the urgent need for “tax cuts”?

Somehow it’s still Donald Trump’s fault.

‘[Trump] “plans to destroy the middle class, punish working people and raise the cost of living for millions of Americans,” she complained Friday.

Is she fooling us?

Last week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attempted to gloss over the cracks when asked about reports of a rift between Biden and Harris.

“They’ve been on the same page for the last three and a half years. There’s been no daylight,” she said.[Harris] will build on… the historic successes they have achieved.’

Well, there you have it, folks: this is going to go on for four more years.

Harris says she will introduce “the first-ever federal ban on food and grocery overpricing.”

Price controls aren’t a new idea – Richard Nixon tried them, and so did the Roman Empire. They’ve been tried so many times that you can even find them in the Code of Hammurabi.

But they never work and usually backfire. Nixon’s effort helped trigger the ruinous stagflation of the 1970s.

Under Biden, inflation is (finally) falling, but wage growth is not keeping pace with rising prices.

Instead of solving the problem, Harris just wants to start the money printer.

She wants to find $25,000 to give to every first-time homebuyer. But haven’t we just spent years printing money and discovered that—guess what!—prices just go up and the cycle is self-defeating?

She says she can cut “red tape and red tape” to build more housing, but has she looked to her home state of California, where she is extremely restrictive, or to her own government?

These new proposals also include more restrictions on who can own and build homes.

Meanwhile, she says she will cut taxes for families with children, after weeks of ridiculing JD Vance for his pro-family stance.

But Harris also wants “tax credits” – in other words, printing even more money for benefits.

An analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found that Harris’ plan would increase the budget deficit by as much as $1.7 trillion over a decade.

The only sensible economic policy she presented last week was a carbon copy of Trump’s: his plan to abolish the tip tax.

What she didn’t mention is that the bill to ramp up IRS enforcement of the tip tax didn’t pass the Senate until August 2022, because the tie-breaking vote was cast by… Kamala Harris.

The truth is that she avoids interviews and press conferences like the plague because every time she opens her mouth she sounds like an idiot spouting a gibberish of meaningless words, shrouded in shameless hypocrisy.

Every time she makes a decision, we get that impression.

Smart reportedly chose moderate Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate, rather than far-left Senator Tim Walz with all his baggage.

Smart proposals would be ones that make economic sense and look like something Joe Biden would never do, rather than repeating the greatest successes of his greatest failures.

Don’t expect Kamala Harris to be smart anytime soon.