Monday, March 7, 2016

RICH DO GREAT WITH BIG GOVERNMENT

“[Marco] Rubio promises that struggling Americans will fare better under standard trickle-down economic policy in the future than they have in the past. [Ted] Cruz has developed a potent argument linking corporate lobbies, the wealthy, and the federal government in a nexus of corruption that’s laid at the feet of Democrats. ‘You know, the biggest lie in all of Washington and in all of politics is that Republicans are the party of the rich,’ he said. ‘The truth is, the rich do great with big government. They get in bed with big government.’”

Packer, George, “Still Standing,” pp: 35 and 36, a Talk of the Town essay in The New Yorker, November 23, 2015.