You and I get that. The average person doesn't. That's why it's effective.
The supermajority of Americans take the standard deduction. You have to understand math to take the other routes. So removing those exemptions was not a negative to the majority of lower and middle class Americans.
It may have delayed the checks, but the checks stopped under Biden. And that's what people remember.
They were paying the credit out early during COVID, not simply including it in your taxes. To the average person it looks like more moola.
I know that, but most people don't care (or even worse agree with it). Trans issues are really only popular online; similar to homosexual issues in the 90s/00s.
Stop vs. Pause is a distinction without substance when 30% of the population is illiterate, and over 50% can't read or write at a 6th grade level or above.
Like I get it, I get what you're saying and it's technically correct. But to the rube who's going to be voting (or at least 30% who will), they just know that under Trump their student loans stopped; and then Biden restarted them.
What? Did you read it? It shows generic R polling vs. Biden winning big but Trump v. Biden polling low. That indicates that the majority of Americans would be open to a Republican Presidency, just not a Trump presidency. They make the case with polling data.
"On track to win a historical landslide"? Not at all. Zero evidence for that.
The article doesn't claim that. It claims that a generic Republican would be on track to win a historical landslide. But not Trump because of his unfavorability.
You don't have to, but you should. Lenin and Mao practically worshiped Marx and they both attempted to implement his system faithfully to the spec he advocated for. And I know that viewpoint is somewhat controversial in non-Leninist/Maoist circles but I think it's true.
What's more I think the historical records of economic collectivism outside of Socialism and political Authoritarianism outside of Socialism are numerous and expensive enough to justify an opposition to Communism as a system.
I think the main realization that made me nominally support Capitalism is it's performance in a "degraded" state. You can have the absolute worst scenarios (think Pinoche Chile) and Capitalism provides constant incentive to improve things and doesn't seize up in the meantime. It continues to function even in the face of severe inefficiencies.
Oh absolutely. Israel's popularity has taken a hit in the US (Down to 58%, source but the Palestinian Authority's support is down to 18% (same source).
And when you look at specifically questions around Israel & Hamas' handling and justification for conflict it's no-contest (source. Nobody thinks Hamas' actions were justifiable. That pew poll is pretty nuanced and lays it out pretty well. Most of Palestinians support is primarily focused on the human cost of the war; which the US is seen to be mitigating with it's air drops and the port we're building.
It's not really surprising either. The older you are the more you've experienced Hamas/PA tactics and PR and the less susceptible you are to it. And Hamas is getting fairly good coverage here. There's rarely a news article pointing out that US citizens are still being held hostage, for example.
Gaza isn't large. You could legitimately destroy 90% of standing structures with 10-20k tomahawk-esque missiles. You could like do the same thing with 5-10x the number of artillery shells.
Because it's wildly unpopular here. The attacks on 10/7 have convinced more people who would normally be supporters if Gaza/Hamas to not be. And the persistent polling that shows supermajority support amongst Palestinians, plus the continued ransom (and likely perpetual rape) of hostages, combine with the consistent pledge of "we love it and we'll do it again", and the fact that Americans are still being held hostage; Palestinians should be glad the US hasn't entered the conflict ourselves.
Cram it in your cram whole Lafleur!