The smaller the dividend returned to the average citizen, the more difficult it will be to sell to them. Any suggestion that the fat cats are sucking it off will backfire there. But of course, in the USA, it doesnt matter what the average citizen thinks as we see from Gilens and Page (2014)
doi:10.1017/S1537592714001595
I attach two panels of Fig. 1 from the paper, which states:
" ... economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence."
"Not only do ordinary citizens not have uniquely substantial power over policy decisions; they have little or no independent influence on policy at all."
" ... our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts."
So this ripoff can probably pass, since it benefits the rich, but the legislators who vote for it will pay a price at the polls. The price may be too dear, that remains to be seen.
The paper is open access. read all about it.
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