Thursday, October 28, 2010

Everyone Gets A Piece

Of course, it's a simplification to see government as a big pool of money. Distributional conflict has many guises. The money in the pool has to come from somewhere, so the battle is waged just as much over who is forced to pay into the pool and under what circumstances.

The middle class doesn't like to get welfare checks, so instead it gets tax credits and deductions for doing things middle-class people generally do anyway. It's six one way, half-a-dozen the other.

But welfare is so much easier to demonize. The "welfare queen driving a Cadillac" Reagan loved to lie about. No one seems to notice it's a '67 Cadillac rust bucket with no wheels.

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