Who Benefits? Who Pays?

I have said it before: it isn't how big government is that matters, but who benefits. Conservatives rail against redistribution. That's a smokescreen. For four decades, redistribution has been upward.

Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research posted an excellent article yesterday making the point better than I. The argument isn't over government size. The argument is over rigging rules to benefit the wealthy.

As Dean Baker explains: "[Conservatives] don't object to big government, they object to government programs that help poor and middle class people."