It’s just about as far away from the second Tuesday in November as you can get...
Yes. Good insight IMO. They NEVER do anything for us. It is always either in secret or heaped and piled with lies and dissembling.
#3 NAILED IT.
A history professor of mine said the formula for election day is actually the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. He said it was established that way so it would always be on a Tuesday and would never fall on November 1, a Catholic Holy Day of Obligation.
Yes. But there’s more to it than that.
It’s also placed well enough after the Xmas Holiday (and shopping) season that people don’t really start thinking about it until after the New Year. It poses no psychological impediment to spending money, and doesn’t place a burden on businesses to get their documentation (W-2s) together and out to employees until after the holidays at over. As well as annual budgeting exercises, etc which are usually need on calendar year or fiscal year starting Oct 1.
But, as you also point out, it’s far enough in advance of election day that the sting of it has pretty much evaporated by the time it comes to vote. In realty it’s optimally placed on the calendar to have as neutral an impact on just about any other type of annual activity except Spring Break.
I propose we move Election Day to the first Tuesday after April 15th.
Further, income tax withholding should be deposited into a personal tax account so that instead of seeing the difference in amount paid and owed, taxpayers would write ONE check for the full amount. If they have to withdraw that much money, they will NOTICE it.
Finally, we should move Inauguration Day to July 4th and make the ceremony part of our National holiday.