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On June 5, Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected, by 77% to 23%, the proposition that every citizen should be guaranteed an unconditional basic income (UBI).
According to the McCain campaign’s calculus, a political outsider with redneck views would appeal to white working-class voters.
With income stagnation, faltering economic opportunities, and a loss of faith in progress fueling widespread discontent, voters backed candidates who promised to return power to the “people” and to shake up systems that mainstream political leaders had “rigged” in favor of a corrupt “elite.”
Economic Fairness and America’s Presidential ElectionSTANFORD/NEW YORK – Voters in the United States have shown their anger this year by turning out for anti-establishment candidates, both Democratic and Republican, in large numbers.
When Americans are asked specifically about taxes, the same message emerges; a majority of voters (62%) believe that the US tax system favors the wealthy.
Why are voters who believe that the tax system is unfair supporting candidates offering such radically different solutions?
While some might claim that the poor and middle-class voters supporting the Republican tax plans have simply been duped, the full picture is much more complicated – and much more interesting.
For some American voters, fairness is based on the principle of “the ability to pay”; the rich should be taxed at higher rates because they can afford it more easily.
For the latter voters, fairness means that everyone should be taxed at the same rate – just like everyone in a democracy has one vote in an election.
It should not be surprising that many Americans hold this view; polls show that even in an era of rising inequality, a significant share of voters continue to favor a flat tax.
Twenty-first-century legislators seemed to be more democratic, responding to their voters’ possibly misguided wishes, rather than primarily to powerful financial interests.
In the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, the task of completing such difficult reforms just before crossing the "finish line" fell to socialist parties, forcing them to betray their socialist identity in the eyes of leftist voters.
On June 23, in a decision of momentous importance for all of Europe, UK voters will decide in a referendum whether to exit the EU.
Remaining in the single market, however, comes at a cost – one that British voters may not support.
Much rides on British voters’ decision in June.
Given that many voters in Europe and the US feel battered by globalization, a populist party that aggressively puts the nation first has a head start against its rivals.
About 20% of voters backed the left-wing populist Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the presidential election’s first round.
Principals, be they investors or voters, determine the incentives of agents, be they asset managers or elected officials and policymakers.
In the wake of June’s Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s triumph earlier this month in the United States’ presidential election, France, too, could fall victim to destructive populist forces, if voters choose the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen as their next president.
To be sure, France’s two-round voting system, which ensures that the president obtains the support of a majority of voters, makes it extremely unlikely that a radical candidate like Le Pen can take power.
To ensure a safe and prosperous future, French voters must support a person of authority, wisdom, and experience, who is willing and able to undertake urgently needed reforms without exacerbating social divisions – someone wholly unlike Marine Le Pen.
In June, British voters decided to take their country out of the European Union; now, a narrow majority of Colombians have rejected a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
In the Netherlands, voters were asked to approve or reject an agreement that runs to more than 2,000 pages, which surely no more than a handful of voters have actually read.
Instead, most voters relied on populist leader Geert Wilders’ glib talking points, which provided a less-than-candid assessment of the issue.
And in the Colombian plebiscite, voters would have needed a deep understanding of faraway South Africa’s truth-and-reconciliation process, and post-apartheid history, to assess the peace agreement properly.
Current California Governor Jerry Brown has spent the last eight years cleaning up the fiscal mess the state’s voters created back in 1978, when they passed Proposition 13, lowering property taxes by 57%.
Disaffected voters are behind both changes.
Yet the voters were ready to move away from the old ties – the electorate had become much younger in the 1990s and the improvements over the old regime, after the recession of the early 1990s had run its course and the reform policies began to pay off, became palpable.
The traditional right is therefore caught between a populist line that still appeals to the voters and the liberalizing policies that are the stuff of modern government everywhere.
This is not surprising: In the US, where almost five million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since the adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and where real wages have stagnated, a majority of voters across the political spectrum are opposed to more such treaties.
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