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Why wouldn't you also blame the Democrats though?

They had the chance to repeal it before it would have taken effect.

Why do they get zero blame on here?



I have no problem blaming them. The biggest problem with Democrats is that they cede all their power to Republicans, and don't seem to use the power they have when they have it. You can have the best policy positions ever but you still suck if you can't capitalize on wins.

But the Republicans made this change to start with. That's a lot of blame. And if they did it just to create a political firestorm against Democrats later (which is exactly what they did), do we (A) recognize that politicians shouldn't be using Americans as cannon fodder to damage their political enemies or (B) blame their political enemies?


Because insistence on blaming both sides equally when one side clearly caused the issue enabled republicans for far too long.

It gives advantage to bad actors.


Dems were elected to undo damage. They chose not to because their platform is higher taxes on corporations and high earners, and ended up creating the tech downturn on their watch. Republicans came in and immediately reversed it with zero Democrats support.


Nice try. No. Republicans caused it. Full stop.

Both sides are the same, Republicans destroy things and Democrats are not perfect in stopping and fixing them! "I am gonna support Republicans as they create problems and then blame Democrats" just makes you someone who intentionally creates problems.


Dems had the chance to fix it and intentionally did not. Republicans did it immediately once they had the chance. If Dems weren't elected in 2020 we'd have plenty of tech jobs now. Their fault, full stop. If Kamala was elected, her platform was even higher corporate taxes.




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