Social Contract

[Steely_Dan]

My wife and I have been talking about various issues with regard to President Obama and our financial woes (both individually and nationally)...yes, we are hurting pretty bad here.

One of the subjects dealt with the wealthy paying their fair share.

Here is the argument I use to justify why the rich should pay a larger amount in taxes than those of us that are struggling. Tell me if it makes any sense to you. Admittedly, it is from the dark regions of my liberal mind.

It seems to me that the ultra wealthy have an unwritten social contract with the rest of the country on the grounds that they would have not realized their wealth if they did not operate in an environment that made it possible. Simply put...without the rights and freedoms afforded them in this country, they would find it difficult at best to earn what they have earned.

Doesn't it make sense that the privileges of operating in such an environment obligate them to return something to society?

Maybe I need another cup of coffee.

-P

[DrToast]

1. Yes, that's a common argument

The wealthy should pay more because they benefit more from a stable society.

[postulater]

2. Agreed.

In particular the right to plunder non-renewable resources for private gain, to be allowed to pollute the environment as they wish, to be free from the consequences of product liability, to chew up and spit out labor and then move on to another country for cheaper workers, to control the laws that protect them from having to share the wealth of their worker's labor, and the right to profit from the re-investment of wealth gained in these practices.

[T Wolf]

3. THE basic tenet of rethugism is that there IS NO social contract. Only them and theirs matter.

The rest of us exist to serve them.

Once you understand that, you can see the futility of even trying to carry on a reasonable discussion with any of them.

They are a cancer that needs to be removed from our society. Period.

[ladjf]

5. They will be "removed" from society due to the gross flaws in their

logic. The problem is, the rest of us will go down with them. nt

[ladjf]

4. Your argument is too logical and ethical to be able to influence

a majority of American voters.