dollar votes

   We all have "dollar votes", although some of us have more "dollar votes" than others. A "dollar vote" isn't the same as a political vote. Each person gets only one political vote. Dollar votes are the choices we make with the money we spend. If we like something, or need it, and we buy it, then we have cast "dollar votes". If we don't like something, and we don't buy it, we are casting dollar votes, too. Providers of goods and services try to make things that we will want to buy. If we don't buy them, they stop making them, and make something else instead--because of our "dollar votes".