--- Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm highly dissatisfied with interest group explanations. Simple > reason: Most of the policies traditionally blamed on interest groups are > in fact *popular*. Adoption laws seem like a case where existing > policies are not popular, though perhaps I'm wrong on that count.
Cato's "Policy Analysis" 420 (Dec 12, 2001) studied voter initiatives and found that tax-and-expediture limitations passed by voters are more restrictive than such legislation by representatives, and they cause per-capita state spending to decrease. At least in this respect, the interests of the voters do not seem to coincide with the legislation by the reps. Also, it does not seem to me that if they knew about it, most voters would approve of agriculture subsidies and price supports. Why would the median voter want a higher price for sugar and subsidies for the owners of sugar beet farms? Fred Foldvary ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
