The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.

- Jason Brennan

The problem with voting is that because your individual vote makes very little difference, you're voting with a mass of others, you have very little …

- Jason Brennan

My main worry about referendums is that you are taking a very complicated political question that requires knowledge of a bunch of background facts i…

- Jason Brennan

For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it…

- Jason Brennan

It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange …

- Jason Brennan

I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year afte…

- Jason Brennan

When I'm crossing the street, I look both ways and I process the information rationally because if I make a mistake I get hurt, but when I cast a vot…

- Jason Brennan