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Saying that voters choose their self-interest is a meaningless tautology.
-raghu.
Why is that? Only if you take as a premise the ludicrous supposition that
everyone chooses to act in their own self interest does this follow. At most
one could suppose that voters choose what they believe is in their self
interest. I doubt even that is true
. Shemano's conclusion is invalid except with the added premise that perceived
self interest is identical to actual self interest. He shows only that as a tax
payer the voter for Walker could see his own interests being aligned with those
of Walker since he would reduce taxes. However in reducing taxes by hurting his
fellow workers he is acting against his own class interest and possibly too his
own self interest by putting him as a worker in a poorer bargaining position.
There are of course other factors that voter did not consider such as decrease
in quality of services etc.
Cheers, ken
Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html
Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
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From: raghu <[email protected]>
To: Progressive Economics <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 9:24:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Wisconsin
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:42 PM, David Shemano <[email protected]> wrote:
> Raghu writes:
> > "When asked to choose between two sides one representing public unions and
> > the other representing corporate
> > interests, the people of Wisconsin chose the corporate interests."
>
> Why do you says they chose "corporate interests" instead of their own
> self-interests? As Mr. Rhone stated, I assume most people who voted for
> Walker saw themselves as part of the "tax-paying" class as opposed to the
> "tax-receiving" class, at least with respect to government employee benefits,
> so Walker's actions aligned with their self-interest.
>
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