who is "all you folks"? Kinda, how do you say, too vague to be useful? and I'm sorry you were poor, sick, and badly educated, but the closest thing to "don't d

who is "all you folks"? Kinda, how do you say, too vague to be useful? and I'm sorry you were poor, sick, and badly educated, but the closest thing to "don't do that" was the American Rescue Plan's permanent child tax credit which cut child poverty in half and oh god wait that's a scheme in a huge bill and I've already lost everyone because that's still too complicated and now it's gone. That's the problem. Every time you repeat the cynical meme that nothing can be done and all taxes are wasted and everything you sap strength from the progress that can be made when we actually pull in the same direction: https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/09/26/the-official-way-america-calculates-poverty-is-deeply-flawed https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/09/26/the-offi... (see the image: https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=80,format=auto/sites/default/files/images/2019/09/articles/body/20190928_src552.png https://www.economist.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1424,quality=8...)