What is actually helping the middle class?
So i'll preface and say I am a moderate/center leaning democrat. In a vacuum I'm not against things that Trump is doing because some of them make sense. For example things that DO make sense:
- Looking into Gov agencies for corruption
- Limiting immigration
- Getting our debt under control
However I don't agree with how he's doing them, but that's not really the point. The big problem I see is something Trump himself brought up during his campaign which is "Price of groceries" etc. I mean how many times did Trump/Vance bring up grocery prices but now all of a sudden they've kinda gone quiet about it. Heck even Trump himself said "Well it's hard to bring down groceries once they are up" (You can literally youtube the clip of him saying this)
So to me it's pretty clear that was used to get votes, with no actual plan to fix it. A general response to this is a lot of times "He just got in office give him a chance! He's got to weed out corruption/DEI/etc..."
Here is my problem with that though:
- DEI is sort of annoying in SOME ways, I don't think DEI in itself is "bad". I think some corporate executions of it is like annoying and yeah some people have def. been pushed aside job wise for "Diversity" which sucks, but in itself I don't think is a big of a deal as Trump and Conservatives have made it. In that sense.......I don't really think it's having a large effect on the lower/middle classes problems right now. Also honestly they are probably going to be spending a lot of tax dollars on "weeding it out" which just IMO is not worth it (I'm willing to be proven wrong here)
- I agree we should be looking into Gov agencies, but I don't like how Musk is doing it which is basically "burning it to the ground and starting fresh". There is no denying there is corruption but some of the agencies do a lot of good and use very little money (like NOAA for example has a TINY budget compared to others). I'm not saying don't look at them but I think what they are doing is dangerous (And really Musk isn't exactly qualified in the sense that he doesn't really obviously understand everything the agency is spending money on)
- I've seen no indication of a tax code that actually helps the middle/lower class. I know it's still in progress but whether people want to admit it or not, the 2017 Trump Tax law skewed towards the rich and we added something like 8.3 trillion to the national debt which sorta goes against everything conservatives want. I haven't seen anything that actually helps average americans out.
- A lot of conservatives have talked about declining birth rates......but i've again seen nothing coming out to actually help that outside of banning abortion. People aren't having kids because they literally can't afford them.
So I guess what i'm asking is. What ACTUAL plans are out there that is going to help the lower/middle class. Because If there is something I'd love to be informed of what it is.