Britain serves as a chilling warning to America of life under President Kamala Harris

Prepare for an exodus of the successful and productive if the United States votes for the Vice President

Taxes will rise substantially. Businesses, and small businesses especially, will be clobbered. And the wealthy will be driven out of the country by a government determined to take as much of their money as possible. Britain is starting Halloween a day early this year, with a “Horror Budget” on Wednesday that imposed some of the largest tax increases in the country’s post-war history.
Americans may think that they can safely ignore all of that. Here’s the catch, however. There are eerie parallels between the two Ks, the UK’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Kamala Harris – and this week may well serve as a warning of what is in store if she wins the presidency.
There are of course many differences between the powers of a British Prime Minister, with a huge majority in the House of Commons, and an American President who may well not control either the House or the Senate. And yet, there is no denying that there are also plenty of similarities between Keir and Kamala.
First, both campaigned on vibes and vague generalities that carefully mask who they really are, and what they believe in. Sir Keir positioned himself as a safe pair of hands, who could restore some dignity to government, and run an administration that was more competent than that of his Conservative rivals. Likewise, Harris abandoned most of her 2020 campaign pledges at an alarming speed, re-positioning herself as a moderate centrist. She was against fracking, now she favours it. She wanted to abolish petrol cars, now she favours consumer choice.
But no one should be fooled. Ever since winning the election, Starmer has moved rapidly back to the Left. The same will be true of Harris once she is safely installed in office.
Next, they both share the Left’s infatuation with taxing wealth instead of income. On both sides of the Atlantic, “progressive” think tanks and policy-makers have obsessed about inequality for so long they have decided that the “rich” must be made to pay more. In the UK, that is taking the form of a huge rise in capital gains tax. In the US, it is likely to be a tax on “unrealised capital gains”, designed to punish the rich.
The result? The UK is already witnessing an exodus of millionaires trying to protect themselves. Likewise, in the US, entrepreneurs will have no choice but to follow them by fleeing overseas, especially as the crazy plan to tax them on wealth they have not even cashed in yet means they will have to get out or sell their companies. At this rate, it will soon be impossible to rent somewhere in Monaco, Italy, Dubai and the Bahamas for all the people escaping to places where they won’t be punished simply for being successful.
Finally, both Keir and Kamala want to shower money on a bloated public sector. In Britain, it is the socialist National Health Service, which consumes however much money the government throws at it with no discernible improvement in the service. In the US, it is the green industrial complex created by Bidenomics. At the end of the day, however, the outcome is much the same. A privileged group of insiders are looked after, and everyone else has to pay for them.
In the UK, voters have already changed their minds. Support for the Labour Party has collapsed, and a majority of the public no longer favours paying higher taxes. Unfortunately, it will be five years before they can do anything about it. The US at least still has a choice – and anyone who still doesn’t know who to vote for only has to look across the Atlantic to see what the reality of a Harris presidency would actually look like.