I did not see this edit to your post when I made my original reply, so I'll reply to it here:
No, sorry. You do not get to start out with
(1) simple and obvious improvements (such as some people paying lower taxes, or fewer people being punished for drug use),
and then pull a "bait and switch" with
(2) a compound mixture of obvious improvement with obvious deterioration,
and then try to pretend that (2) is the same kind of thing as (1).
All else equal, "the majority [voting] to steal more from the rich" is obviously NOT an improvement.
All else equal, "the majority [avoiding having to pay higher] taxes themselves" obviously IS an improvement.
Mixing both of those things together is a compound pick-your-poison wash that has nothing to do with the other simple hypotheticals to which I replied in
post #3 and
post #5.
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