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NYPost OpEd - The 'I lied to the police and got him thrown in jail' act

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March 23, 2012

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http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/capitol/the_lied_jail_the_police_and_got_s2zheEr5zwQ1CXY3cbgGCP#.T2xkwreRho8.reddit

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Title	NYPost OpEd - The 'I lied to the police and got him thrown in jail' act
Author	funnyfaceking
Upvotes	108
Comments	26
Date	March 23, 2012 11:56 AM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/r9uly/nypost_oped_the_i_lied_to_the_police_and_got_him/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/nypost-oped-the-i-lied-to-the-police-and-got-him.1025412 https://theredarchive.com/post/1025412

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http://www.springerlink.com/content/x737rhv91438554j/

Abstract: In this paper we test the hypothesis that extensions of the voting franchise to include lower income people lead to growth in government, especially growth in redistribution expenditures. The empirical analysis takes advantage of the natural experiment provided by Switzerland''s extension of the franchise to women in 1971. Women''s suffrage represents an institutional change with potentially significant implications for the positioning of the decisive voter. For various reasons, the decisive voter is more likely to favor increases in governmental social welfare spending following the enfranchisement of women. Evidence indicates that this extension of voting rights increased Swiss social welfare spending by 28% and increased the overall size of the Swiss government.

http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/WashTimesWomensSuff112707.html

Excerpt: Academics have long pondered why the government started growing precisely when it did. The federal government, aside from periods of wartime, consumed about 2 percent to 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) up until World War I. It was the first war that the government spending didn't go all the way back down to its pre-war levels, and then, in the 1920s, non-military federal spending began steadily climbing. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal — often viewed as the genesis of big government — really just continued an earlier trend. What changed before Roosevelt came to power that explains the growth of government? The answer is women's suffrage.

[+]SisypheanLife -1 points0 points1 point 14 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

Oh, good. You've managed to detect a correlational relationship between women's suffrage and gradual changes in the federal government. This clearly proves that all women in society vote in exactly the same way all the time.

No one is arguing that different voter demographics tend to vote in different ways. But the person I replied to said "women control 55% of the vote and vote in a block for women's issues". I think that's taking it a bit far. There are plenty of women out there who don't really care so much about women's issues--in fact, there are plenty of women out there (particularly among fundamentalist organizations) who believe that many "women's issues" contradict their religious beliefs and will actively vote against candidates that support them. I happen to know many women like this, personally.

My point is that this argument over-simplifies the issue and makes it sound like there is a conspiracy of women who want to strip men of their power and punish us for goodness-knows-what-reason. And that's just silly.

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