How much is your local "Trump at the Pump Tax?"

Yeah, you're right. It's not fair to blame everything on the current president. (Then again, it's not fair to blame everything on the last one either).

To me it's not so much about who's to blame but what's happening. You seem to point out numbers from the early 70's, correct? Back then the price of a house was about 2.4 times that of a yearly median wage. Today it's more than double at over 5 times the median wage. In my area a median house is about 13 times that of a median wage. I can live without McDonald's cheeseburgers, but it's kind of nice to have a roof over one's head and it would be even nicer if putting money towards that roof could result in some personal equity.