“I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is with wealth transferred to themselves, rather than with social cost efficiency. Logically, this would mean that democratic government would be inefficient in reducing social costs.” BelieveMeanGovernmentWould BeI BelieveSocialWealthCostConcernDemocraticIllPrimariesVotingVotersEfficiencyReducingDemocratic Government Book:The economics of politics Source: The economics of politics
“A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students of public choice [is]: that government employees or people who draw the bulk of their income from government by other means should be deprived of the vote . . . It is another example of the opening up of alternatives for investigation and the presentation of new conceivable policy options characteristic of public choice, rather than a policy that all its students favor.” PeopleKnowsShouldMeanGovernmentChoicesPolicyExampleStudentsDrawsVoteFavorsIncomeOpeningConclusionRadicalAlternativesCharacteristicsEmployeeInvestigationDeprivedPresentationOpening UpGovernment Employees Author:Gordon Tullock
