Attend a Tea Party gathering and you will hear endless cries about the “moocher class.”11 Read the output of the libertarian writers subsidized by wealthy donors and you will encounter endless variations. David Boaz of the Cato Institute, to choose just one, speaks of the “parasite economy” that divides us into “the predators and the prey.”12 Addressing an audience of $50,000-per-plate donors, Mitt Romney famously remarked that “47 percent” of voters were, in effect, leeches on “productive” Americans.13
