Seems like a good excuse to post this venn diagram again
Americans talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals. The Tea Party–era sign saying “Keep your government hands off my Medicare” is perhaps the most famous example of this divided soul. Americans like both the rhetoric and reality of low taxes, but they also like the programs that taxes fund. They thrill to politicians who talk
... See moreEzra Klein • Abundance
Maddeningly, voters want contradictory things: low prices when they shop, high wages for themselves; not many immigrants but lots of cheap labour; rising house prices when they own and lower ones when their children want to buy.
Economist
A lot of countries basically are caught in a trap from which there is no escape.
1) They have a lot of old people. They need healthcare, pensions, etc. This is *incredibly* expensive.
2) More old people means less tax money, more tax burden on the increasingly few working people and... See more
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