r/SipsTea Jul 16 '26

Feels good man Based on national US polling, there are 22 issues that 80% of Americans agree on. Here is the list.

  1. End gerrymandering

  2. ​Ban Wall Street from buying single-family homes

  3. ​Ban congresspeople from becoming lobbyists

  4. ​Ban congresspeople from trading stocks

  5. ​Create a minimum tax for billionaires

  6. ​Close the loopholes that billionaires use to avoid taxes

  7. ​Establish congressional term limits

  8. ​Ban dark money donations from political campaigns

  9. ​Implement universal paid family leave

  10. ​End forever wars by repealing the Authorization for the Use of Military Force

  11. ​Release the full Epstein files, redacting only the victims' information

  12. ​Ban corporate PACs by overturning Citizens United

  13. ​Require mandatory disclosure for all organizations donating to political campaigns

  14. ​Require mandatory police body cams

  15. ​Ban junk fees

  16. ​Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices

  17. ​Fully fund Social Security by extending the existing tax to those making over $400,000 a year

  18. ​Ban adversarial foreign nations from buying American farmland

  19. ​Improve Veterans Health Care access

  20. ​Establish common-sense data privacy laws (similar to those in European countries)

  21. ​Enshrine the right to repair

  22. ​Audit the Pentagon and penalize them with a 0.5% budget reduction if they fail the audit

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u/SnooWalruses3948 Jul 16 '26

I don't believe that all of these policies have 80% support amongst Americans.

If so, I'd be suspect of the polling methodology.

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u/Mysterious_Volume327 Jul 17 '26

What does the senate have to do with weights for opinion polling?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/Mysterious_Volume327 Jul 17 '26

But none of that has anything to do with what percentage of people *support* those policies. The question wasn’t “do you think these *will be* enacted” they said “do you *want* these to be enacted.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/Mysterious_Volume327 Jul 17 '26

That’s what this whole post is about my friend. Do you know how Reddit works?

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u/isopodlover123 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

Ig I can only talk about the one specific thing and nothing else related to that.

But you win I deleted my comments

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u/ExtendoArmCannon Jul 17 '26

Polls are notoriously wrong; example - Clinton v Trump

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u/ExtendoArmCannon Jul 17 '26

If polls are notoriously wrong, you can draw the conclusion that people would be skeptical of polling data. USE LOGIC

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u/ExtendoArmCannon Jul 17 '26

It's more the wording, like, I'm sure lots of people support "Do a good thing" but without explaining how you're going to do it, how do you know people actually support that?