[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Yet I cannot imagine that in any national poll that asked > simply, "do you support higher ag subsidies" that Americans, even typically > subsidy-sympathetical statist-liberals, would in any large percentage say > "yes."
Standard questions ask "higher spending," "lower spending," or "about the same." I bet you would get at least 40% saying "about the same" and probably 25% saying "higher," making the status quo the median voter outcome. You can check your public opinion guesses about various kinds of spending at: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/ Click "S" for spending. -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He wrote a letter, but did not post it because he felt that no one would have understood what he wanted to say, and besides it was not necessary that anyone but himself should understand it." Leo Tolstoy, *The Cossacks*
