So they voted for someone whom they think is an ass purely for the financial gain of paying less taxes, but would be against assistance for buying their first home? Doubtful, your friends are the epitome of selfishness personified if their reasoning is to actually be believed. Whats worse is that theyre also so bad at math they cant figure out that their selfishness is leading them to the least prosperous outcome possible. Trumps tax cuts arent going to help them much; 83% of his prior tax cuts went to the top 1%, leaving the remaining 99%, which presumably includes your friends, dividing up the remaining 27% of cuts. Whats worse, is that any tax reduction they do see will be more than offset by price increases of goods resulting from incoming mass tariffs and mass deportations. Nothing that you are saying in defense of your friends passes any level of scrutiny whatsoever. They are against government handouts for themselves and for the poor folk, but are totally for government handouts for the extremely wealthy that they imagine themselves as being part of. Tax cuts are government handouts, especially Trumps which go to wealthy business owners, land developers, and corporations, significantly cutting corporate tax rates, cutting tax penalties for the wealthy abusing offshore accounts, cutting estate taxes, etc. Trumps not helping the people who work their butts off with his tax cuts lol. Anyone who has paid any attention at all during the last 8 years would know that.