efficiency in government as a left issues:

[Carl Remick]

Re Gar's:  "In reply to this someone else on this list suggested that he
(it was a
guy) thought that the new class might support this taxation if they
thought it would be spent efficiently. Now I have two responses. One
is that I think this is only true for a minority at most. "

That was me.  As I said, I realize I can sound like a sap taking a
position like that, but I've always thought the left's most powerful
weapon is simply sweet reason.  That won't work with the very wealthy,
who increasingly strike me as pathological and purely id-driven.
However, the highly analytic types who constitute the "new class" should
certainly be susceptible to the sheer force of logic that supports so
many arguments for a more egalitarian society -- e.g., that the key
motive forces of capitalism (fear and greed) impoverish the human
spirit, that socialism (in Oscar Wilde's phrase) can "be the highest
form of individualism."

Carl Remick