Elizabeth Warren:
“You serve *us*!”
“The Government owns you and everything you have!”
“You are our slaves and we will do whatever we want with you!”
“Bow to your Leftist OverLords and Masters!!....NOW!!!”
It really is a despicable view of America and Americans.
The bottom half of the population use those same roads, police forces, and fire departments, but pay no taxes.
No wonder this country is so messed up!
We have way too many morons posing as University Professors in this country!
She also fails to mention that "society" didn't build the factory, take the risks and create the products. That was done by the capitalist business owners, not the unemployable idiots who make up her voting base.
She is being disingenuous and misleading. Few object to paying taxes for things like police, fire, roads, and common sense public education. Those are core Government functions. The problem is all the other things Government has taken on (namely entitlements and health care) that are increasingly unaffordable. That is what most people object to and she never even addresses that problem.
It’s pathetic, but likely a winning strategy in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts.
The choice of the term “social contract” is no accident either. The down-and-out can then be inspired that those wealthy people over there “broke their contract with you”.
The “logic” of Warren’s argument is that you don’t really own anything you have, and government can take it anytime it deems it necessary for “the public good.” That is the essence of totalitarian communism. Warren would have made a great commissar in Stalin’s day. Or head of the NKVD.