> In other words, all of the main items in the budget are popular and > indeed if anything the public wants them to be larger. (Presumably views
Question: could public opinion be endogenous? Ie, maybe there might be some status quo bias? Would people before the New Deal or the Great Society have approved of specific programs before they existed? Isn't it "folk wisdom" that many gov't programs start with promises they'll stay small (income tax, social security, medicaid) but once they exist, they become popular? Fabio
