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Yea Kamala should not have been the candidate. She was tied to Biden who was associated with inflation which I think really decided this. I'm not sure the rest of your comment has that much to do with it

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> She was tied to Biden who was associated with inflation which I think really decided this.

What about the rest of the world who've also been experiencing the same?

It's a very shortsighted take, and we've seen the same in the UK where Liz Truss 6 weeks as PM has taken the blame for global inflation in the court of popular opinion

Of course, its not logical, but voters "feel" they were better under trump without realizing inflation was a global phenomenon. This was also a failure of Dem messaging.

"Associated with" not "caused by".

This is why we call Trump's voters "stupid", the US is still under Trump's tax plan until 1/2025. So if someone has an issue with taxes, it's not Biden's fault even though he is in office.

I know this and I'm not even American

Inflation and taxes are two different things.

Inflation was caused by the Covid stimulus of 2020, and the mountains of free money printed that year (which is why it hit the entire world - every government did the exact same thing). Last I checked, Biden wasn't president at the time...

I merely pointed out that taxes and inflation are different things and that the respondent said one, where they were replying to the other.

Making it a left or right issue makes no sense given the content of my post was to point out the mismatch in arguments.

EDIT: This post is the same thing fwiw.

Given that Trump's economic policies are primarily the cause of inflation in the US, not sure what your point is. He printed and gave away 8 trillion dollars when combined with his tax cuts for the wealthy and people wonder why the cost of everything went up. Corporations across the planet were the beneficiaries of corporate welfare as governments printed money to battle COVID, and then they pocketed the profits and told their employees that they couldn't afford to give them raises.

Doing stock buybacks with government stimulus is next level evil shit - but there were zero penalties for doing it, so why not?

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