Authoritarian lawmakers accept and defend extreme wealth inequality

Evidence

We might have been surprised that Equality had such a low priority among authoritarians—lower than almost everything else on the list—had we not already seen the data on the Economic Philosophy Scale. Authoritarian legislators, who help write the tax laws for their states, did not feel in that earlier study that there was anything wrong with the huge imequality in the distribution of wealth in America. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3598

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates vault claims that authoritarianism and economic conservatism align on inequality acceptance; connects to Cooper on the class content of family-values politics.