Philip Converse (1964) discusses this phenomenon in “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics.” He states that voters may be unaware that they hold logically contradictory beliefs. Indeed, Converse even cites tax policy as a subject that is particularly prone to logical inconsistencies on behalf of the mass public. Converse (1964) states, “Among adult American citizens, those who favor the expansion of government welfare services tend to be those who are more insistent upon reducing taxes” (209). Somin reiterates this point. An informed electorate, he states, “would not be oblivious to the contradiction between seeking a reduction in government power [i.e. taxes] and an expansion of nearly all its major programs” (Somin 1998, 418).