Price and value

Vernon Small has worked out the price of a vote:

About $9565 for each of the roughly 2.3 million people expected to vote on November 8, going by the two big political parties’ promises to date.

The price would rise if you added all the spending they both agreed was needed.

There is a difference between price and value, however, so we need to be asking not what the promises cost, but what they’re worth.