A midterm exam for Grassley, Ernst, Miller-Meeks

Please select which of the following best describes why you voted for The Big Ugly Budget Bill (75% of your final grade).

Choose one or more:

1. You think we're too dense to notice what it does to us.

2. You think we'll forget, when it comes time to re-elect you.

3. Your values are so skewed that you think taking from the poor to give to the rich is what good people do.

4. You have a lucrative job offer from a billionaire.

5. You don't understand economics (if so, choose the appropriate fallacy).

a) voodoo economics (also known as supply-side, “trickle down” theory)

b) national debt matters only when Democrats are in office

6. You've been bamboozled by Trump.

7. You've been threatened by Trump.

8. You think the poor and working class are Democrats and feel no obligation to help them.

9. All of the above.

10. None of the above (Please explain, because for the love of God we can't understand why you think you are helping your constituents by voting for this bill).