Republicans claim to be deeply worried by budget deficits. Indeed, Mr. Ryan has called the deficit an “existential threat” to America. Yet they are insisting that the wealthy — who presumably have as much of a stake as everyone else in the nation’s future — should not be called upon to play any role in warding off that existential threat.
Well, that amounts to a demand that a small number of very lucky people be exempted from the social contract that applies to everyone else. And that, in case you’re wondering, is what real class warfare looks like.
Paul Krugman, The Social Contract
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/krugman-the-social-contract.html?_r=1&ref=paulkrugman
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/krugman-the-social-contract.html?_r=1&ref=paulkrugman
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