The GOP scamming of rural Trump voters continues. A new study shows the latest.

[Zorro]

It has long been central to Republican mythology that Democrats have nothing but seething contempt for the rural and small-town inhabitants of the Real American Heartland. Republicans sometimes pair this with vile lies about Democratic proposals that would deliver economic benefits to those regions, turning their residents against them.

An important new study of the distribution of benefits from a major new policy from President Biden and Democrats — the expanded child tax credit — illuminates the repulsiveness of this scam with unusual clarity.

The new analysis from the Niskanen Center finds that the expanded child allowance — which has started delivering up to $300 per child per month to most U.S. households with children — will shower outsize benefits on residents of rural and less populous states and will deliver a disproportionately large relative boost to their local economies.

Every congressional Republican voted against the covid-19 rescue bill, which created the current child allowance by temporarily expanding the previously existing child tax credit to poorer and working-class families, making it much more like a universal program.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/02/gop-scamming-rural-trump-voters-continues-new-study-shows-latest/

[lagomorph777]

1. Very important to reach these people and reveal the Reptilian lies.

Advertise on Fux if necessary.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Succinctly, they're giving their Stimulus Money to Trump.

From Joe Biden to them to Trump.

[NJCher]

3. where are you getting that?

If you read the whole article you'll see that people in that income level hardly have enough left over to donate it to somebody who already has a 100 million in his war chest.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Just a good guess.

Folks like that donate first and go into debt with the rest of their liabilities.

[NJCher]

5. well, I beg to differ with you

Although I live in northern NJ and far from that demographic of voter, I know people in that part of the country first hand and they will hardly put trump first. They will put their kids first simply because the need is so desperate.

I already heard one story about how a couple was finally able to fix their car. Until now they had been walking down a highway to get to work in a freaking Dairy Queen, career opportunity of a lifetime. The car has been broken for three months, sitting in the drive, with no money in the household to fix it. Groceries, too, were obtained by walking down the highway to a grocery store.

Once the kids are taken care of, however, I would not be surprised if there was some pot or alcohol finding its way around the house.

[Aristus]

6. I wouldn't have quite so much contempt for them if

they would stop calling themselves the ‘real’ America…