Why Do Voters Really Work?

(1) Voters can be ignorant about how government works, but still understand their interests on a basic level. They are capable of knowing what they need and want from government policies, but how they can achieve what they need is usually where voters get mixed up. This is especially true for voters who believe misinformation from the political party they identify with. To combat this, politicians shouldn’t be allowed to spread false information about how policies will work. Independent, mixed party committees should evaluate new policies and agree upon key points to condense the policy to that is digestible for voters who have little understanding of government and economic processes. We can’t really be sure that we know their interests better than they do, but we can be confident of when they are being manipulated or tricked into a policy that will actually hurt them, or not benefit or affect them at all.

The tax could generate a lot of money because of our society’s concentration of wealth and “it is unlikely that most Americans would ever be touched by the tax” (Stiglitz, 2013, p. 210). Still, the Right wrongly convinced the majority that this tax would harm small businesses, and the benefits of this tax have been undermined. The lack of better understanding of this tax policy is a driver of inequality because this policy could actually put effort into reducing inequality. As well, Stiglitz (2013) writes that the Right preaches that any taxing distorts the economy, but he explains how rent taxing would actually reduce inequality and incentives to pursue things that distort the economy (p. 266). He goes on to say that pollution without tax distorts the