• PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    We can compare those periods, sure, but one immediately followed less than a year of Covid and the other was caused by an illegal, immoral and unnecessary war.

    Biden had been in office for not very long when the war in Ukraine started. Inflation steadily improved under his presidency.

    Trump’s insane slash-and-burn administration has raised inflation a lot, and that’s not slowing down, it’s increasing.

    If all you do is take a mathematical average, you’ve lost too much data to understand the important reasons why we’re seeing what we’re seeing.

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      2 hours ago

      Sure but that’s not what the poll was asking. It just asked whether COL was higher or lower between them.

      But maybe you’re right that there are better questions to ask.

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah I wasn’t trying to argue, although I think my comment unintentionally sounded that way. My bad. I guess my point is that, yes, there are better questions to ask about our current state of affairs than when did we have lower prices. Questions such as:

        “Which president did more to address the affordability crisis: Biden or Trump (47)?”

        Biden went after this pretty hard while Trump denies there’s even a problem.