Tonak and Shaikh's work on the social wage might offer some guidelines on how one could theoretically go about evaluating who gets what from the government, but a full accounting would be all but impossible.
We all believe that the military does more to protect the assets of the rich, but quantification would be difficult. Even so, I think that the idea of trying to quantify the benefit side alongside the tax side might be interesting. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
