Have people in a democracy EVER voted themselves all the money?

[cthulu2016]

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Ayn Rand types believe that democracy is a process wherein people vote to take other people's money until that mechanical redistributive process reaches the communist end that is inexorably advanced by the system.

Like so many nut-right notions, this crashes on the rocks of reality.

I don't know of any mature democracy ever voting in communism, or even coming close.

In fact, stable democracies always seem to feature some extremely rich people.

And, amusingly, we even have cases where people screw up by voting themselves too much more money (services) without taking enough away from the rich (taxes). (eg. Greece, Prop 8 California) Even when desirous of services people are quite reluctant to vote to take away other people's money. People will even oppose taxes they will never in a million years be subject to personally.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. No.

[cthulu2016]

2. .

[El_Johns]

3. No, but the idea that they have and will lives on, for some strange reason. What *has* happened is

that the rich legislate themselves most of the money, property and power, then push the tax burden down onto the lower classes; that's happened repeatedly, regularly, yet that's never mentioned as a "danger" of fake democracy, which is mostly the only kind of democracy that's ever existed.