You are assuming earning money is a meritocracy. It definitely is not. Also the government’s role in spending money is to offset tragedies of the commons. No m

You are assuming earning money is a meritocracy. It definitely is not. Also the government’s role in spending money is to offset tragedies of the commons. No matter how well someone can deploy money, they have little incentive to deploy their own money to fix issues of the commons. However, it is possible for them to know that society as a whole would be better off if everyone was forced to contribute a fair share to those issues.