RE: Re: further adventures in political surrealism
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
However, there is also something to be learned from it, namely how to successfully implement a government program - by coupling it with the interests of a broad segments of the population so they see themselves as beneficiaries - even if that is largely illusory. The problem with most left-sponsored programs (except social security!) is that they are ostensibly designed to help only the “less fortunate” or other narrowly defined interests, which creates what the economist Burton Weisbrod called the “median voter” rebellion - i.e. a situation when most voters object to using their tax dollars to fund special interests.
That’s the beauty of single-payer healthcare: it’s universal. And it’s related to why unions are nowhere near as popular as they should be: they’re perceived, not incorrectly, as more interested in their narrow self-interest than in promoting a broad program that would benefit nearly everyone.
Doug