The main reason why the poor are better off than they were in the past is because our production is greater, not because there's been redistribution. We do care how widespread or how available it is. There's a connection with whether you have a job and how productive you are. And one of the worst start standards launched, now you know, distinction between the Audience and the United States has to just be veryansomily deadly.
Bryan Caplan, of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog, talks about his book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. Caplan argues that democracies work well in giving voters what they want but unfortunately, what voters want isn't particularly wise, especially when it comes to economic policy. He outlines a series of systematic biases we often have on economic topics and explains why we have little or no incentive to improve our understanding of the world and vote wisely. So, it's not special interests that are messing things up but the very incentives that lie at the heart of a vote-based system. This is a disturbing and provocative lens for viewing political outcomes.