tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post1615815975530354450..comments2023-11-19T20:38:50.237-08:00Comments on Economic Logic: Does voting for an inefficient government make sense?Economic Logicianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10171296292101248614noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-64812441145462442532010-11-13T06:12:46.068-08:002010-11-13T06:12:46.068-08:00Once you use taxes to deal with the free-rider pro...Once you use taxes to deal with the free-rider problem then the invisible hand can allocate public goods as efficiently as it allocates private goods.<br /><br />It would be as simple as allowing tax payers to <a href="http://pragmatarianism.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">vote with their taxes</a>.Xerographicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978832439622230018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-61131598178711116202010-01-18T12:03:54.137-08:002010-01-18T12:03:54.137-08:00Danny, you comment has nothing to do with why some...Danny, you comment has nothing to do with why some countries have a more efficient public sector. If we follow your reasoning, because US media are willing to jump on any story, would have the least efficient and most wasteful public sector of the world. Believe me, this is far from true.Vilfredonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-18335717046629219812010-01-18T11:02:50.869-08:002010-01-18T11:02:50.869-08:00This issue entirely revolves around public employe...This issue entirely revolves around public employees access to the media. For instance, police and firemen have access to the media and declare thier respective occupations dangerous. No doubt true, but other private sector occupations are more dangerous and life threatening than theirs. Commerical fishing, logging, highway workers have a higher on-the-job mortality rate than those two municipal occupations but most only hears how dangerous police and firemen have it. This is because news media is always looking for a story. The more exposure to the media, the more those two occupations complain about the dangers they face and low wages they receive. The advantage of being a civil servant is being able to position themselves as local communities self-fulfilling prophets. In fact, most civil servants have higher pay and more and better benefits, especially healthcare, than the average taxpayers funding those occupations through mandated, confiscatory taxes.<br /><br />However, the size of government employees have grown in size the past 50 years now makes them a sizable block of voters not to be messed with or risk losing an election. The is the dilemna in local taxes and federal spending. Many times government is the largest employer in a city, state, as well as federal government. It is a vicious circle than no one can get a fiscal handle on.<br /><br />Danny L. McDaniel<br />Lafayette, IndianaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com