Child allowances, free public universities, and public health insurance provision are not "hand-outs"; they are smart social policies that countries that aren't deeply dysfunctional and cruel provide their citizens because they make everything (including the economy) better.
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But also hard to square “no handouts” with the fond memories of DJT signed Covid checks
wrong, me, the people, want a handout. give me forth the handout, m'lord. the peasants are suffering in the field. give us the handout of the crop you took from us.
At all cost to our society suffering from it.
https://bsky.app/profile/socio-steve.bsky.social/post/3lbkkvddues2c
I'd also add Democrats and policy types fail at the messaging necessary to get people to understand a lot of these policies and they just get boiled down to technocratic names that people don't associate with tangible differences in their lives.
So very much wrong with that worldview. 
A society that declines to invest in its populace is a society that is investing in its decline.
Showing the benefit to all is crucial.
BECAUSE YOU LET THEM EXPIRE YOU FUCKING DUMBASS
This was the BEST option we could find after a week of combing plans.
Unless Dems can figure out how to govern to govern and get credit for it, they'll keep losing if the GOP doesn't blow things up (which they usually do).
It drives me crazy that economists forget that
And so do our legal community
"Why did the people who had one year of child tax credit in 2021 not remember it and love us for it 3 years after we took it away?"
The democrats passed a year bill and then the democrats with a majority choose not to make it permanent.
But it's actually still the fault of the saints qb if he throws the ball away on purpose every down and they lose.
You don't get to whine about why didnt
Wait you’re a right wing democrat leader? Shocking. I hate you and your ilk.
"get a better comms strategy" is a better solution than "don't do good policy"