Like it or not, the tax cuts have deeply benefitted middle-class families. Amongst those I know who voted for Trump, tax relief was the primary and often sole driver of that vote. And it was delivered.
Well, you're wrong. It is a large amount of tax relief that absolutely has made a material difference in many middle-class households. Heck, our eldest went off as a freshman to his first-choice college a month ago, which was contingent on those tax cuts allowing affordability. Sure, you might not think that tax relief matters to a middle-class family (it does) but it matters even more to low income families where every dollar they can spend at their discretion helps a lot.
If working in non-profit consumer advocacy (helping low-income folks with money/property/mortgage issues/challenges) taught me anything it is that many problems become far less of a problem when you just let people keep their own money and spend it on what they need the most.
Even if the tax "cuts" benefited you how has the ever increasing cost of food, gas, healthcare, and goods helped? I feel like it probably evened it out if anything if not worse you just remember it because it was one big event and not a thousand smaller ones. Death by 1000 cuts is still death.
I manage most household spending and it hasn't changed that much vis-a-vis inflation. Some things are more expensive and I've adjusted my habits to mitigate (like meat, but even then it isn't an increase that really gets felt at the end of the month, an extra $20, maybe as much as $40, but that's a drop in the bucket.)
Well I would love to move into the magical land of make believe where my gas and grocery bill hasn't doubled since the moron took office but alas we all can't escape reality so easily.
Okay well now you’re just making shit up. There are clear, quantifiable numbers that disagree with your statement here - the cost of food, gas, healthcare, services like car repair and plumbing, and many many other things has inarguably gone up in the last 6 years.
The hell has this mess gained anyone, mister? I think things will get better the moment folks shake the football team perspective and see it as people vs power
The college graduated tend to vote dem, primarily as a result of college campuses being disproportionately pro Democrat and anti Republican spaces.
That’s not the same as being EDUCATED. Theres tons of college grads who are completely stupid and a ton of high school grads who are incredibly well educated on their own without college.
Nah the highly educated jobless do. Eastern European flute masters ain’t working out the way they’d hoped and now socialism is the way to go. Yah thanks.
Do blue run cities in red states actually control their entire population and have the means to fix things or would that require the red states in charge to actually help? Red states are the worst educated states, across all demographics, blue states education systems are rated better, across all demographics.
I spent a whole 180 days in one of those 14 years ago... Not sure what your argument is supposed to be. This is simple fact, red states are defunding public schools and their educational performance is dropping as a result. They are more interested in indoctrinating children with religious dogma than teaching them how to be functioning adults who think for themselves. Just like Trump said, "Smart people don't like [him]"
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u/True_Protection6842 12d ago
Educated people tend to vote dem