Kimberley Strassel writes in the Wall St. Journal that citizens are more than a bit peeved with their government. "The state of the union is angry. Citizens are furious about gas prices and health-care costs, broken schools and property taxes. These are the leaky hydrants, the constant reminders...
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Cigars, Scotch and Anarchy
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libertyboom
on Mon, May 19 2008
Filed under: gas prices, citizens, state of the union, Wall St. journal, Washington, government, voting, elections, election
Most economists agree that from a cost-benefit perspective, the cost of voting far outweighs any material benefit . For example, in a presidential election, your vote is one out of 120+ million. Your chance of casting a tie-breaking vote is infinitesimally small, so small that you could win million-dollar...