Also true in the UK.
Where people imagine there to be big savings they approve of (overseas aid, MPs salaries, benefits fraud) there are not.
Where people imagine there to be big savings they approve of (overseas aid, MPs salaries, benefits fraud) there are not.
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Jonathan Cohn
The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.
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I miss the posted version too.
From Benefits Scroungers, to MPs Expenses to Brexit allowing '£350 Million for the NHS', there has been so much dishonesty for so long that it's no surprise the
People couldn't see that this was chicken feed for the NHS.
They also failed to understand that that spend and the relationships it maintained helped grow the denominator!
That that campaign worked was a depressing eye opener!
People are economically liberal, what the chart shows, but fiscally conservative, they won't pay more tax.
A piechart is the only way most can visualise numbers.
https://bsky.app/profile/cooperlund.online/post/3ljflzrqufs26
A pie-chart, on the other hand, tells you something at a glance. And you can always home in on the bit you care about, without deluding yourself that it has wider significance.
[admin people are cut]
"Why does no-one know what they're doing and nothing works?!"
https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer
https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxlab-key-questions/what-does-government-spend-money
oh, aircraft carriers? two please
*Meanwhile the Home office spending actual taxpayers money considering putting a wave machine in the channel to deter small boats*
is that still a thing or did we finally managed to get rid of him