I don’t have the patience to go through that whole list
@The Zone ive been intending to get to it since you posted it but just can’t bring myself to do so properly, didn’t have the time all week and now I don’t have the patience..
But I will say this.. unemployment is down but the “jobs” being created are low pay, no benefits, less than full employment. This was a problem under obama as well and has been going on since the 2008 crash (if not before then). Even when the economy recovered companies just seemed to continue using it to exploit workers even when it is no longer necessary (it was never really necessary to begin with) people were desperate for work so they could get away with it and now it’s just become status quo. The economic boom has only benefited people concentrated at the top, it has not trickled down. This criticism also applies to the corporate tax cuts.
As for the individual tax cuts - yes the standard deduction was doubled, however personal exemptions were eliminated which actually harmed families with more than one child. I know quite a few middle class families who are paying an effective tax rate 10-20% higher than in years past - between the loss of exemptions, the inability to write off certain expenses they used to be able to write off etc. Plus we are in the northeast so the cap on writing off property taxes has hurt a whole lot of people since the northeast has very high property taxes. When we had personal exemptions the first 28k I made was exempt, now it’s 24k. This wouldn’t make a difference to anyone making poverty wages or to someone making far more but when I’m right on the line every year it makes a big difference to me and I personally got screwed by the changes.
Everybody sees things from their own lens it seems and I suspect some people will change their tune after doing their taxes but idk.
I remember the world prior to the 2008 crash, I just wish we could go back to it. I graduated college the year before and things were good they have never been good again ever since. That’s all I’m saying. As far as I’m concerned Obama sucked too.
I’d love to see a president that truly cared about and prioritized the American working people (above the elite and the corporations etc) but in all my life there’s only been one candidate who seemed to fit that bill and he was robbed. All the people announcing they are running in 2020... massively flawed as well. So idk. But trump ain’t it, even though he seems to have convinced enough people he is. (How, I’ll never understand) And maybe sanders wouldn’t have been it had he been elected either, idk. The only time anything has changed for us is when we banded together and fought for it and people nowadays seem to damn lazy to lift a finger.