Someone (forgot who) said (paraphrasing) that democracy would fail when average citizens figured out that they could vote themselves money from the national treasury.
It seems to me that what you have presented here demonstrates how insightful that staement was.
Someone (forgot who) said (paraphrasing) that democracy would fail when average citizens figured out that they could vote themselves money from the national treasury.
I believe that this was either Voltaire or Bastiat.