A) If each voter is assigned to pay the same tax share of $100 per gardener, what is the political equilibrium under majority rule? B) Show that the Lindahl equilibrium will differ from the political equilibrium under majority rule?

In a congressional district somewhere in the U.S., a new representative is being elected. The voters all have one-dimensional political views that can be neatly arrayed on a left-right spectrum. We can define the ”location” of a citizen’s political views in the following way. The citizen with the most extreme left-wing views is said to be at point 0 and the citizen with the most extreme right-wing views is said to be at point 1. If a citizen has views that are to the right of the views of the fraction x of the state’s population, that citizen’s views are said to be located at point x. There are two candidates for the congressional seat and they are forced to publicly state their own political position simultaneously on the zero-one left-right scale. 1.a  Suppose voters always vote for the candidate whose stated position is nearest to their own views and suppose each candidate cares only about getting as many votes as possible. In equilibrium, what will be the two candidates’ positions?…

Notice that the before-tax equilibrium price was 25. Compared to the price, in the after-tax equilibrium, how much more would consumers need to pay to buy one X? This is the consumers’ tax incidence. Also, in the after-tax equilibrium, how much less would sellers receive from each X they sell? This is the sellers’ tax incidence. (note:  this question asks changes in the prices from before-tax equilibrium price 25) Consumers’ tax incidence: Sellers’ tax incidence:

Suppose there are five voters. Their preferences for the amount the federal government should spend to stimulate the economy are shown in the figure to the right. According to the median voter theorem, in a vote, how much will the federal government spend to stimulate the economy? The federal government will spend S billion. (Enter your response as an integer.) 1200 1100 1000- 900- 800- 700- 600 2500- 400- 300- 200- 100- Greg kelly Christina Luis