"Because
the rich are different from you and me, many of them are incredibly
self-centered. They don’t even see how funny it is — how ridiculous they
look — when they attribute the weakness of a $15 trillion economy to
their own hurt feelings. After all, who’s going to tell them? They’re
safely ensconced in a bubble of deference and flattery. Unless, that
is, they run for public office."Like everyone else following the news, I’ve been awe-struck by the way questions about Mr. Romney’s career at Bain Capital, the private-equity firm he founded, and his refusal to release tax returns have so obviously caught the Romney campaign off guard. Shouldn’t a very wealthy man running for president — and running specifically on the premise that his business success makes him qualified for office — have expected the nature of that success to become an issue? Shouldn’t it have been obvious that refusing to release tax returns from before 2010 would raise all kinds of suspicions?" - Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, writing for the New York Times.
