Pocketbook issues strain, but dont always sway, Nevada voters

MESQUITE, Nevada — Families here, and across swing state Nevada, are ponying up an average of $1,196 per month more than they did before “Bidenomics” and its subsequent inflation took hold, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee reported in August.But in this retirement community, where three casino resorts attract customers from Utah 40-some-odd miles north and a small slice of Arizona next door, inflation has had a mixed impact on the locals who spoke with The Post.While not every voter said their ballot choice will turn on their bankbook, almost all said the state of the economy was on their minds this year.Mike Massong, 77, lives in a Sun City Mesquite home in a community for residents 55 and up.Unlike most of his neighbors, his house sports a Harris-Walz sign, one of two visible, versus four Trump signs and one Trump-lettered American flag.

The retired manufacturers’ representative who moved here from Littleton, Colo.said although he and his wife Janice were “hanging in” economically, their finances were “pretty good” overall.“The big thing is they blame the inflation on Biden,” Massong said.

“The inflation is due to the pandemic.Every country in the world had inflation problems, even Japan.

Japan had 2% inflation, and they hardly ever have inflation over there.”He said the Biden-Harris stimulus spending — which critics say fueled inflation that reached as high as 9.1% in the past three years — was necessary.“What if they wouldn’t have done that? What would happen to a lot of these people, and a lot of these businesses would have gone out of business, and a lot of these people would have been in dire trouble,” Massong said.But Wally Pousy, a retired Washington state employee who moved to Mesquite nine years ago, said he and his wife aren’t doing any better now.Speaking to The Post while loading groceries from the local supermarket into their car, they named higher food and gasoline prices under Biden-Harris as the cu...