Stopping mass illegal immigration that undercuts native workers, and pushes up living costs, especially housing.

There were fewer deportations per year under TFG than Obama.

Not sure if you've checked what happened to living costs and housing during that administration, because they sure went up a lot.

The parent was asking about “policy proposals”. I imagine lack of success of President Trump in implementing his proposals has made many of his voters unhappy.

That said, if you don’t focus on deportations, but instead look at the entire picture, note that the total net illegal immigrant flow was significantly lower during President Trump than it was during President Obama, and has jumped through the roof as soon as President Biden took over.

For a couple years after trump was elected I worked with many illegals. Many of them were scared of trump and had family that was scared to come over because of him. It was more rumor than reality that kept numbers down, but none the less it was working.

> I imagine lack of success of President Trump in implementing his proposals has made many of his voters unhappy

Somehow that hasn't happened.

Massively increasing the child tax credit.

Reducing taxes is a pretty big one. Even the most editorialized and anti-Trump articles[1] admit that "the bill helped average families". These articles usually go on at length complaining that the tax cuts also help the rich.

But this is the kind of thing that directly and immediately helps the middle / working class. Reducing their tax burden puts money back in their pocket.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/elections/20...

We should follow the singapore/hong kong model of higher property/land taxes and lower income taxes (keep them progressive). The government is supposed to manage the commons and it should be rewarded for doing a good job.

Income taxes are frankly terrible. They increase the risk of corruption because they are "free for all". Increasing land value through public investments is often straight forward. Proper urban planning increases tax revenues, bad urban planning decreases tax revenues. Meanwhile with income taxes, the connection is way more elastic. If you fund a $8 trillion infrastructure bill with income taxes, nobody is going to care if the investment is actually worth it but a lot of politicians will be interested in adding "pork" to benefit from the money.