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Originally Posted by ila
Just as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and others came to their own different ideas of what the social contract is I too have my own version of what it is.
For me the social contract is what politicians say they are doing for their citizens all the while making it look like it isn?t really the citizens paying for it, but rather giving the impressions that the politicians are somehow creating programs out of the goodness of their heart and the generosity of their spirit.
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It is often quite true that politicians convey this impression. However, the public is not stupid, although they often appear to be, they know somebody has to pay for the governments services. What the public hopes is that somebody else pays a greater proportion of the cost of the services than they do. Cost-benefit is not the exclusive purview of the rich.