[taxyz23]

Actually poor people are well represented. Witness the trillions of dollars of debt the US is in, the countless duplicative entitlement programs subsidizing food, health care, housing, schooling, etc. Politicians don't get elected unless they give other people's money away to those who don't have it and the poor by definition do not have money to give away but they do vote. Sometimes like here a minor fraud prevention rule slips by like address corroboration but it quickly becomes obsolete because bureaucratic efficiency and modernism is not what government does best.

[kergonath]

> Witness the trillions of dollars of debt the US is in,

Why do you assume that this debt went to the poor? There is quite a bit of evidence of welfare for the wealthy and large companies.

> the countless duplicative entitlement programs subsidizing food, health care, housing, schooling, etc.

Any figure for this? No mention of the stupidly large military spending or tax breaks?

[toss1]

You completely ignore multiple studies showing that in 80-95% of legislative actions, the action is the one favored by large corporations and NOT the action favored by people or poor people.

IOW, the US legislature is responsive to people and especially poor people only 5-20% of the time.