And Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, ...

401 people voted directly for her.

Who's angry about how people are spending their already-taxed income? Is that really a thing? Is it sincere or just racism masked as "think of the economy"? (Honest question, Not American. Don't live there, news to me).

The big beautiful bill included a 1% foreign remittance tax for outbound international transfers funded using physical cash, money orders, and cashier's checks.

Which notably, doesn’t affect money transfers in general, just ways that poor people transfer money, so the concern as stated is not in good faith at all, but rather a way to further punish migrant workers, primarily Mexicans, and is absolutely racial animosity.

Yet strangely not cryptocurrency or bank transfers

"common sense" is common sense because it is the "sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts" (1).

Maybe what you meant to say is that the position isn't, in fact, "common sense", that it is neither sound or prudent?

(1) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20sense

Keyword being "simple". The common sense solution often turns out to be unsound based on a more detailed perception of the situation

i.e. "every complicated problem has a solution which is simple, elegant and wrong"

Oh yes, "sound" and "prudent" haven't been in the ballpark nearly as often as they used to be :(

The dictionary definition is in spite of the fact that the phrase "common sense" is more often than ever being used to rebrand what was formerly known as "common lack of sense".

They wouldn't say it if it wasn't false :\

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Might find this one relevant:

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Thanks so much!