Many have long believed that big government helps the poor at the expense of the wealthy. But back in the glory days of economics at the University of Chicago Aaron Director noticed a recurring theme in the way democracies cut the pie. Given the power to tax and redistribute, you might expect those on the bottom (plus one to gain a majority) would form a coalition to snatch away the wealth of the top 49 percent. But this doesn’t happen. Director teased out why: forming a winning coalition requires intelligence, effort, organization, endurance, resources, indignation…capabilities the poor simply do not have. This is part of the reason why they’re poor, after all. For the very same reasons they struggle in a free market, they fail in the political market too. By Director’s logic and contrary to popular belief, the big jackpot winners in democracy are the members of the motivated…
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