Why low income whites usually vote for Trump

[Marener]

Well if they stopped building so many large, expensive homes that people can’t afford, then they could sell the smaller homes.

So you want builders to do something that will reduce their profitability?

I think not.

People are still buying the expensive homes. Whether they can afford them is another matter.

 

[Woodznutz]

Well if they stopped building so many large, expensive homes that people can’t afford, then they could sell the smaller homes.

When I was growing up, there were no 2500 sf homes that I ever saw. Those were for the rich people. The middle class people lived in the 1100 sf homes, and there was nothing wrong with that.

My city used to have lots of affordable family housing for sale or rent. However, when the university enrollment skyrocketed the students sucked up most of those and of course the landlords raised the rents above what a working family could afford.

 

[Woodznutz]

So you want builders to do something that will reduce their profitability?

I think not.

People are still buying the expensive homes. Whether they can afford them is another matter.

It's not just the builders, it's the cities. They want more property taxes, which more expensive homes provides. They also want to keep the low-income riff raff out.

 

[Lisa558]

Several of my friends bought or rented homes in small towns and commuted to work, some up to 50 miles one way. They love it.

You can definitely buy a bigger house if you move further out. The place I bought had me commuting an hour and a half into DC, but I was able to buy a large, luxury townhome.

I COULD have bought within a 20-minute commute, but that meant I could only afford a small condo.

I made my choice. These leftists seem to think that everyone is just entitled to a large house with an easy commute.

 

[Lisa558]

It's not just the builders, it's the cities. They want more property taxes, which more expensive homes provides. They also want to keep the low-income riff raff out.

Not necessarily in the leftist areas. In some counties around here, they’re trying to get rid of SFH zones so that small multi-family units can be interspersed among the big houses. They say it’s for “equity.” What is really does is drive down property values and lower the caliber of the local schools.

 

[Marener]

It's not just the builders, it's the cities. They want more property taxes, which more expensive homes provides. They also want to keep the low-income riff raff out.

From what I can tell, the political left, especially in the cities, have been trying to push for multi family properties.

But a lot of established stakeholders don’t want that.

 

[Lisa558]

From what I can tell, the political left, especially in the cities, have been trying to push for multi family properties.

But a lot of established stakeholders don’t want that.

Yes, because as I just said above, it lowers the property values and caliber of the schools.

 

[Marener]

Not necessarily in the leftist areas. In some counties around here, they’re trying to get rid of SFH zones so that small multi-family units can be interspersed among the big houses. They say it’s for “equity.” What is really does is drive down property values and lower the caliber of the local schools.

lol. Case in point.

You want affordable housing, but it has to be somewhere else because you don’t want to coexist with the undesirable poors.

 

[Lisa558]

lol. Case in point.

You want affordable housing, but it has to be somewhere else because you don’t want to coexist with the undesirable poors.

Why should my house drop in value and the school system get ruined because leftists think it’s better for the lower-income?

There have always been wealthy areas, middle class areas, and poor areas going back centuries. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[Marener]

Why should my house drop in value and the school system get ruined because leftists think it’s better for the lower-income?

There have always been wealthy areas, middle class areas, and poor areas going back centuries. Nothing wrong with that.

I gotcha. You want the poors to huddle into shitty, dangerous, run down neighborhoods with bad schools and less opportunity.

Nothing wrong with that!

 

[Lisa558]

I gotcha. You want the poors to huddle into shitty, dangerous, run down neighborhoods with bad schools and less opportunity.

Nothing wrong with that!

Who said 1100 sf homes would be in shitty and dangerous neighborhoods? What a snob you are!

I lived in a neighborhood of small houses, and it was a safe, middle-class neighborhood with decent schools that taught academic subjects and prepared us for college.

 

[Marener]

Who said 1100 sf homes would be in shitty and dangerous neighborhoods? What a snob you are!

I lived in a neighborhood of small houses, and it was a safe, middle-class neighborhood with decent schools that taught academic subjects and prepared us for college.

Apparently they’re too shitty to be anywhere near the fancy neighborhoods you are trying to protect from them.

 

[Lisa558]

Apparently they’re too shitty to be anywhere near the fancy neighborhoods you are trying to protect from them.

Why lower the upper-class neighborhoods?

Nothing wrong with a middle-class neighborhood, if that’s what you can afford.

 

[Mr Natural]

Apparently they’re too shitty to be anywhere near the fancy neighborhoods you are trying to protect from them.

NIMBY!

 

[Marener]

Why lower the upper-class neighborhoods?

Nothing wrong with a middle-class neighborhood, if that’s what you can afford.

Your post is just dripping with snobbery.

 

[Stryder50]

Businessmen rarely are elected because they live in a semi feudal environment. They are not used to being criticized from below.

The more education one has, and presumably the more intelligence one has, the more likely one is to vote Democrat.

Education - maybe*
Intelligence - no ~ lazyness quite likely

*Formal education is socialist/leftist programming mostly, pushing their bias. Not producing many objective and critical thinkers lately.

 

[Woodznutz]

From what I can tell, the political left, especially in the cities, have been trying to push for multi family properties.

They're called "Projects".

God's plan is best; "His own vine and fig tree and none shall make him afraid."

 

[Woodznutz]

Why should my house drop in value and the school system get ruined because leftists think it’s better for the lower-income?

There have always been wealthy areas, middle class areas, and poor areas going back centuries. Nothing wrong with that.

The poorer areas have been targeted for development or "gentrification", driving the poor out. In my city the students have displaced the working poor in many areas.

 

[Hector12]

Your chart is out of date and wages increase when Trump is president. Wages dropped thanks to illegal workers and Bidens inflation killed their affordability. They vote for Trump because they do better when he runs the economy

There is no future in factory work. Factory jobs are being replaced by factory robots.

 

[Hector12]

Do tax cuts for the rich negatively impact low-income earners?

Yes, because they raise the national debt and make it difficult to fund programs that benefit low income earners.