{"id":1270,"date":"2004-08-26T00:44:04","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T07:44:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-08-26T00:44:04","modified_gmt":"2004-08-26T07:44:04","slug":"another-argument-for-limited-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/26\/another-argument-for-limited-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Argument for Limited Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/critics\/atlarge\/?040830crat_atlarge\">THE UNPOLITICAL ANIMAL: How political science understands voters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most widely known fact about George H. W. Bush in the 1992 election was that he hated broccoli. Eighty-six per cent of likely voters in that election knew that the Bushes\u2019 dog\u2019s name was Millie; only fifteen per cent knew that Bush and Clinton both favored the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>When people are asked whether they favor Bush\u2019s policy of repealing the estate tax, two-thirds say yes\u2014even though the estate tax affects only the wealthiest one or two per cent of the population. &#8230; What is most remarkable about this opinion is that it is unconstrained by other beliefs. Repeal is supported by sixty-six per cent of people who believe that the income gap between the richest and the poorest Americans has increased in recent decades, and that this is a bad thing. And it\u2019s supported by sixty-eight per cent of people who say that the rich pay too little in taxes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE UNPOLITICAL ANIMAL: How political science understands voters The most widely known fact about George H. W. Bush in the 1992 election was that he hated broccoli. Eighty-six per cent of likely voters in that election knew that the Bushes\u2019 dog\u2019s name was Millie; only fifteen per cent knew that Bush and Clinton both favored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}