David Henderson In The Wall Street Journal.
In a 1968 article in the Journal of Law and Economics, James R. Schlesinger— later defense secretary under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and energy secretary under President Jimmy Carter—wrote: “The tool of politics (which frequently becomes its objective) is to extract resources from the general taxpayer with minimum offense and to distribute the proceeds among innumerable claimants in such a way as to maximize support at the polls. Politics, so far as mobilizing support is concerned, represents the art of calculated cheating—or more precisely how to cheat without being really caught.”
The good news is that the Pacific Grove residents who alerted me to this have caught the cheaters. Is it too late? Time will tell.