>New York Times - January 12, 2003
>
>The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest
>By DAVID BROOKS
>
>NASHVILLE - Why don't people vote their own self-interest? Every few
>years the Republicans propose a tax cut, and every few years the
>Democrats pull out their income distribution charts to show that much
>of the benefits of the Republican plan go to the richest 1 percent of
>Americans or thereabouts. And yet every few years a Republican plan
>wends its way through the legislative process and, with some trims
>and amendments, passes.