of the voters rights bills can passed through reconciliation.
What I found to be pure bullshit was the Parliamentarian saying that a 15 USD minimum wage would not have a significant impact on government balance sheets to qualify. Ludicrous, as the increased tax revenues from higher salaries would be massive. Also bullshit is the non inclusion of student debt relief, which would have qualified. A lot of people in my age cohort ( I was born in 1996, so let's call it 18 to 40) were very driven to the polls by student debt relief (like the 10k USD at least that Biden campaigned on the entire time) and also the free first 2 years of public college tuition (Biden for years said 4 year at a public school, but lowered it when he declared for POTUS) .
I see many on this board (draw-bridgers I call them) say that even the 10K USD in relief should not be given, nor the free first 2 years of uni. Big mistake, especially as we have control (albeit barely) of Congress and the POTUS. I have been waiting for 7, 8 months for Biden's lawyers to say if he can do it via executive order (most all, bar a few, constitutional lawyers have said yes, as there is a clause in the statutes that is easily seen as granting him the power). If those 2 things are just blown off, that is hardly a way to energise Gen Z and the Millennial (and even older) voters in 2022. Not after they were inundated with those promises over and over (especially when the GA seats held the Senate control in their hands. The Millennial gen is just fucked financially overall, save for a group of high income earners who artificially jack up the average earnings. As a last year (1996) Millennial (I prefer Zennial, ie. a micro bridge Gen born from 1992 to 1998) I can attest to many of my peers struggling like hell, even before the pandemic.
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