Affordability versus public goods: Why politics tends to put everyone on the losing side of this divide In the US as in India, political sensitivity to household expenses tilts the scale towards cash transfers. Trump’s ‘tariff funded’ cheques and Bihar’s election-driven handouts are examples. But this generosity starves budgets of badly needed money for public goods. This way, we all lose.
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