Do US adults support Trump's agenda? Here's what an AP-NORC poll shows

[Dulcinea]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump will start implementing a far-reaching agenda when he takes office for the second time on Monday, but a poll finds that despite his claims of an “unprecedented and powerful mandate,” the incoming Republican president lacks broad support for some of his top priorities.

Just over half of US adults favor eliminating taxes on earnings from tips, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, but some of his other pledges — like pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, increasing oil drilling on federal lands and imposing new tariffs — are less widely favored.

There is room for opinion to shift on many of the proposals, since a sizable share of Americans hold a neutral view. But some are more clearly unpopular. A majority of U.S. adults, for instance, oppose pardoning most people who participated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, indicating that one of the actions Trump has promised to undertake quickly will likely be unwelcome to many Americans.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-poll-pardons-tariffs-taxes-drilling-climate-7fa453197520f091feb8956737feb278

[Midnight Writer]

1. Trump doesn't care. It's not as if he is planning to serve our people or our country.

He's got what he wanted. Great power, limitless immunity, infinite grifting possibilities, some new billionaire pals.

He doesn't give a tinker's turd about "approval" from the peons.

[Wiz Imp]

2. As far as eliminating taxes on tips - it's not going to happen

But it makes sense people would favor it when it is presented in such simplistic terms. However, if people are informed of all the consequences of what Trump and MAGAs removal of taxes on tips would entail such as:

-Economic analysts point out that creating a new class of income totally exempt from taxation could create incentives for more tax avoidance. Wealthy individuals would be motivated to find ways to convert their existing income into “tips” to get a new tax break. This could be particularly easy for professions that are already paid bonuses by their employers or customers, like hedge fund managers or lawyers
-There would be a lot more workers that want tipped jobs. And so that's going to give employers the comfort and the ability to pay those workers less in wages than they otherwise would
- There is a default assumption that consumers are just going to pay tips at the same rate that they have always been paying. That's not likely to be the case. At some point consumers will likely get exhausted. You're essentially asking customers to pay higher prices, when they have already gone through a period of four years where they have rebelled against higher prices.
-More than a third of the lowest-wage workers already don't have to pay any federal income tax so this would have no impact on them
-many more too numerous to mention

People would not support it nearly as strongly when presented with all of these facts.

[jls4561]

3. He lies to make us try to accept his fantasy world. Remember this man tells us Ivanka is pretty,

Melania is classy, and Don Jr is smart.

[Dulcinea]

4. I guess to some people...

...this fantasy is preferable to their reality. Meanwhile, "classy" Melania has nudie pictures online (or so I'm told), Don Jr. is a very sad & pathetic individual whose father will never love him, & Ivanka looks like a blowup doll. Sorry, but that's what she looks like to me.