Elections

H.L. Mencken "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods". How is that possible? Stolen goods? Who is stealing? Politicians vote in a tax and take our money, time and effort. They take it to pay someone who does not work, or to subsidize something that does not have much value. Two examples, ethanol as a fuel is inefficient and only cheap because of subsidies. Likewise, high fructose corn syrup, not so good for our bodies, is cheap because of, you guessed it, government subsidies that came from our pockets.