[FateAmenableToChange]

I find that the cat in heat on the fence outside my window usually makes more sense that Krugman. What a loser.

[MEGoody]

On the contrary, it’s people like Mr. Ryan, who want to exempt the very rich from bearing any of the burden of making our finances sustainable, who are waging class war.

Good grief. Ryan has never said the rich shouldn't pay any taxes. The author of this piece of drivel is quite the liar.

[KarlInOhio]

You tell me that by the fact of my birth that I have signed a contract whose terms change (and get worse for me) constntly, has no limit on its demand on me and which I can never see a legal written copy of. Then you have the audacity to complain that I don't have any respect for that contract.

[dblshot]

I don’t remember signing any social contract. An unsigned contract is worth about as much a a Krugman opinion, which is to say squat.

[dblshot]

I don’t remember signing any social contract. An unsigned contract is worth about as much a a Krugman opinion, which is to say squat.

[DaxtonBrown]

I’m sorry, but where can I pick up my copy of the Social Contract to read and sign?

[albionin]

The social contract is simple a euphamism for theft. It translates as some of the people agreeing to make property out of the rest.

[Brilliant]

I never agreed to any social contract and you can be certain that I will never be a party to any contract that Krugmn has signed

[Lancey Howard]

Who signed this “social contract”, and was it properly witnessed and notarized?
Personally, I have never seen a “social contract”.

Of course, maybe “social contract” is just liberalspeak for communism. That’s what it sounds like.

[Iron Munro]

Social Contract For Real Americans

[Buckeye McFrog]

First Warren, now Krugman. “Social Contract” must be a focus-group tested and approved buzzphrase. Look to be smacked over the head with it every day for 13 months.

[Billthedrill]

So do the wealthy look to you like the victims of class warfare?

Not yet. Marie Antoinette looked fine, too, just before they cut her head off.

The only thing in American politics that might be described as a social contract is the Constitution itself, and it says nothing about redistribution of wealth in pursuit of social justice.

There is real class warfare going on, but it isn't focused on "the wealthy", it's focused on the middle class, because it is the middle class that is the repository of political liberty. Marx hated and despised the petit bourgeoisie as an impediment to revolution, which it is. It is also an impediment to the sort of authoritarian control the Dems are now trying to sell as populism.

"The wealthy" don't really have anything to be worried about short of the return of the Dr. Guillotine. They have resources necessary to protect both their wealth and their persons. It is the middle class that is milked in every scheme ever devised by greedy redistributionists and it is the middle class that will be milked here. That's where the real money is.

But for Krugman to pretend that this public relations campaign centered around the hoary old claim that "the wealthy aren't paying their share" is somehow not class warfare is blatantly and profoundly dishonest. It is the very definition of class warfare. It is the common resort of an oppressive government to distract its citizens from the obvious results of its own corruption and incompetence. The good news, if there is any, is that it is likely to be as corrupt and incompetent at this as it is at everything else.

[Bigun]

Only one question. Why on earth would anyone who even remotely professes to be a conservative give one hoot in hell about anything Paul Krugman might say about anything?

[Rockingham]

In the liberal telling, “social contract” means that no matter what the people want or need, it is liberalism they will get. Nevertheless, there is a genuine American social contract: freedom and self-government under the Constitution.

[stylin19a]

over the same period, the income of the very rich, the top 100th of 1% of the income distribution, rose by 480%

Great...he has to get to a nano-level to make a point that doesn't matter.
In 2005, (near as I can figure based on the Tax Foundation figures) )there were 135,000 tax returns filed by people in top 0.1% who had an aggregate AGI of $799 billion. they paid an aggregate of $180 billion in income taxes.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html#Data

[GeronL]

The Social Contract? When was that convention... 1776?

All I know is the Constitution and Bill of Rights and the left doesn’t respect that.

[GeronL]

is that policy has consistently tilted to the advantage of the wealthy as opposed to the middle class

You mean like when government hands out cash to Solyndra and GM?

Of course he doesn't mean that