{"id":22606,"date":"2026-07-05T16:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22606"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:48:35","slug":"the-great-disconnect-4-2-unemployment-and-nobodys-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22606","title":{"rendered":"The Great Disconnect: 4.2% Unemployment And Nobody&#8217;s Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump&#8217;s tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy do not sunset. His financial benefits for the middle class and below&nbsp;do sunset. If he really thought these programs were good and were helping people, he and the Republican Congress that passed them would have made them permanent, instead, he made them temporary to use as an election issue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump Accounts mostly benefit those wealthy enough to take advantage of them as tax deductions (ways to avoid paying taxes, making the deficit, debt, and inflation worse).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anytime the government does something through tax deductions instead&nbsp;of checks, it&#8217;s a sign that it will mostly benefit the wealthy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Great Disconnect: 4.2% Unemployment And Nobody&amp;apos;s Happy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/poeAc1jUvzk?start=682&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy do not sunset. His financial benefits for the middle class and below\u00a0do sunset. If he really thought these programs were good and were helping people, he and the Republican Congress that passed them would have made them permanent, instead, he made them temporary to use as an election issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump Accounts mostly benefit those wealthy enough to take advantage of them as tax deductions (ways to avoid paying taxes, making the deficit, debt, and inflation worse).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anytime the government does something through tax deductions instead\u00a0of checks, it&#8217;s a sign that it will mostly benefit the wealthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=poeAc1jUvzk&#038;t=682s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,681,221,217,165,573,364,411,676,1639,142,1025,141,170,635,101,150],"class_list":["post-22606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-deduction","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-low-income","tag-middle-class","tag-policy","tag-poor","tag-tax-avoidance","tag-tax-break","tag-tax-code","tag-taxes","tag-trump","tag-unemployment","tag-wealthy","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22607,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22606\/revisions\/22607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}