This sounds like it might be a really interesting book, for anytime interested in politics, American or otherwise. I wonder how closely this parallels to Brexit, the Freedumb Convoy, and QAnon.
I usually don’t read books about politics, but this one might be an exception.
As a blind child, I dealt with this when I first grew up and got my first job until I qualified for Social Security disability instead. And I know a number of people who have this exact issue.
A lot of the people I know use a trusted third party such as a parent and have money transferred to an account in their name to avoid this exact issue.
Socialize industries. Do what countries like Qatar did and give the wealth to the people. Gdi, it’s so obvious, but they’ve got us arguing because the genitals of the person you don’t even know might not match your expectations. The right are led around so fucking easily it’d be embarrassing if they were capable of seeing it.
Many people are voting red because they think it will be better for their personal finances, with promises of lower taxes. They don’t look at the benefits: that use to outweigh the cost, which we’ve mostly lost Even though we still pay high taxes and high cost of living for things that are now for (higher) profit (healthcare, school, etc.). It’s not wrong to try and look at your bottom line, it’s just a short-sighted bottom line.
At least this is the conversation I have with people who consider themselves moderates who lean right and tend to vote Republican.
Because there’s a fundamental conflict between ruling for a “conservative interpretation of the law” and a “my party is always right and needs to retain control” perspective?
Well the rist the MAGAts introduce is actually allowing laws to stand that should be stricken. Like the book banning, because the enemy will immediately turn around and add your precious bible to the list.
"Congressional Republicans, including nearly the entire Senate GOP Conference, signed onto a Supreme Court brief in January backing former President Donald Trump when Colorado state officials tried> to prevent him from being on the ballot over his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection,” Punchbowl News reports.
“But that same level of support from Hill Republicans for Trump hasn’t materialized on a separate and equally high-profile argument to the high court — that Trump has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution related to any official actions as president.”
“In fact, the deadline for submitting a brief in support of Trump’s position in the immunity case has already passed.”
And is working to try and pardon more, according to his own cabinet. The issue is that he has to find backchannels and other legal routes because the SCOTUS said he couldn’t just order the Department of Education to just forgive federal loans.
CATO hates it. Which is generally a good thing. Okay, I’ll give it to him for now. He’s stepping up pressure on at least one part of the economy that’s causing pain and suffering. The problem is as always, delivery. The last time he got pressured during campaign season it was about immigration and reforming a system that forced migrants to wait in dangerous areas. Then he continued most of Trump’s policies and even took some of them further.
He needs to deliver or at least show progress. He’s not just a candidate, he has the power to show his willingness before the election this time.
This is the flip side of the US achieving a “soft landing”, bringing down inflation without triggering a recession. Not having a recession is good, right? Yes, in the main, but one consequence is that asset prices, including housing, will remain elevated for the foreseeable future. These tax credits that Biden’s proposing amount to no more than tinkering around the edges of the basic economic situation, at best. At worst, they could ruin the Fed’s inflation-fighting campaign at the last stretch.
Didn’t the housing prices drop during a recession? It really feels that politicians have their own lingo. When people call something “bad” it actually means good; however, when a politician call the economy “good” it really means bad.
We are in the wake of one of the largest wealth transfers… robberies in history. The middle class has been drained, the poor have been robbed. There’s nothing they can do to take back all the money they gave to the wealthiest in the country. It’s going to take some serious reforms, none of which Biden is capable of. I’ll fucking list the solutions if you want, as if that’d do anything. The bottom is going to fall out soon enough, we’ll see change.
UBI and/or a wealth tax would do it. Hell I’d settle for USACorp doing Housing, Healthcare, Internet, and Groceries at cost. Especially in areas being literally left behind by the private sector.
There are a handful of politicians who actually care about people. Nothing will change unless we elect more people willing to change things. Barring that, we eat the rich.
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