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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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2022 Index of Economic Freedom: Biden Drags U.S. to All-Time Low of 25th
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, May 12 2022
In today’s polarized culture, debate is characterized more often by normative subjectivity than empirical objectivity.   Even where one side in a debate possesses an advantage of common sense and lessons learned through experience, objective resolution is often impossible and people must simply agree to disagree.   It’s therefore refreshing when a matter of common debate becomes subject to quantifiable fact and demonstrable correlation.  Such is the case in the ongoing debate over the merits of economic freedom versus greater government control.  …
 
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Notable Quote   
 
"The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration's embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped…[more]
  
 
— John R. Lott Jr., RealClearInvestigations
 
Liberty Poll   

Considering the exceptionally hostile mid-term elections rhetoric and activity, does that make you at all reluctant to vote in person?