In response to comments at this post, I link here to this op-ed of mine from this past December. In this op-ed, I discuss public choice — not exhaustively, by any means, but in one of the ways that is relevant to the naive notion that representatives chosen by majority rule can reasonably be assumed to tax and spend in ways that promote the public interest.
On Voting to Spend Other People's Money
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