Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich

[vroomvroom]

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/02/political_economy

At left, we see that as people at the bottom of the income spectrum care more about an issue, the probability of action on that issue scarcely budges. At right we see that policy responds a little more to median preferences. But what's clear in both is that the rich are much more successful at getting their issues on the docket.

[peacetalksforall]

1. I always say of, by, for the corporation and their stockholders - whether the

stockholders are rich or not.

[blindpig]

2. They wouldn't have it any other way.

Actually, they couldn't, and that's why they do it.