Colin Anderson Productions pty ltd  There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.  --Attributed to French revolutionary Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin  They say politics is downstream from culture. Something similar is true of the economic ideas politicians espouse. Economists tend not to be consulted before politicians come up with their economic proposals. Only afterward. Granted, economists disagree on plenty of topics, but there's also widespread agreement on plenty of issues as we ...