An esoteric lie with real world consequences.

          The real reason these "representatives" refuse to do their job, is that they buy into the lie that Taxes fund Spending. They cleave to this lie because is it easy for the uneducated, and uneducable to fall back into the concrete operational style of thinking that toddlers develop and is so very prevalent amongst young grade school students.

          The core of the problem is "classical" economics doesn't do well at describing Reality. Even though they refuse to abandon the language of classical economics, Stephanie Kelton and Robert Reich are the best economists at describing this aspect of Reality.