Maker Myth-Makers 0
Paul Krugman reminds that, when it comes to Republicans, watch what they do, not what they say,
And given that world view, Republicans see it as entirely appropriate to cut taxes on the rich while making everyone else pay more.
Now, national politicians learned last year that this kind of talk plays badly with the public, so they’re trying to obscure their positions. Paul Ryan, for example, has lately made a transparently dishonest attempt to claim that when he spoke about “takers” living off the efforts of the “makers” — at one point he assigned 60 percent of Americans to the taker category — he wasn’t talking about people receiving Social Security and Medicare. (He was.)
In a similar vein, Guardian columnist Ha-Joon Chang explains that the folks who flatter themselves that they are the “makers” are actually the takers.
