“Votes are more equally distributed than income … . Voters with incomes at the median or below gain by transferring income to themselves.” Meltzer described this reaction as “part of the cost of democratic government and political freedom” but said that “the Friedmans [Milton and his wife, Rose] swam against this strong current. They could not stop or reverse it, but they influenced far more than most the ways in which people and politicians think and act.”14
