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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Now, Root warns, "Gorsuch may see affirmative action in college admissions the same way."
54% : Gov. Hochul plans to hike state education funding to more than $34 billion this year, yet such aid "has grown at nearly twice the rate of inflation over the past 30 years" even as "public school enrollment in New York has fallen 8 percent since 2012," observe the Empire Center's Ken Girardin & Emily D'Vertola.
49% : Yet when it does diverge, that's "more often due to liberal decisions that inflamed conservatives and moderates" -- on, say, elections, school prayer and abortion -- rather than decisions that please the right.
47% : Often the justices' "instinct" is simply to take "issues off its plate" and give them "to the political branches to decide," as in its recent calls on "legislative and congressional districting" and the Environmental Protection Agency.
43% : Media attention has focused on President Biden's main plan to cancel student debt but the "regulatory changes" he proposed along with it, which he's moving ahead with, have "massive implications" and "would cost taxpayers far more than the White House is letting on," warns Beth Akers at The Hill.
29% : Biden's "raised taxes, dramatically scaled up the regulatory burden, puffed up domestic government spending, and undermined public confidence with his bumbling ways."
23% : Yes, "staying the course" paid off for President Ronald Reagan, but Reagan worked by "cutting taxes, slashing red tape and unnecessary regulation, freeing up the economy, reining in Washington's spending, and creating confidence."

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