Another great one from Krugman. The real kicker, really, is the second-to-last sentence:

“But when they say ‘we,’ they mean ‘you.’”

If I were asked to give the main reason behind America’s current stagnation (where by current I mean the last few decades), I would cite this attitude. We are all becoming reform freeloaders. We call for change, but we want that change to be from others. While this is true in the tax reform discussion or the “balanced budget” discussion as a whole, this attitude also permeates every …