Tony Brooks, the lone Republican on the Wilkes-Barre city council and a Luzerne County historian, thinks another way to look at the 2016 campaign is as a struggle between “the givers and the takers.” “And the givers are fed up with the takers,” Brooks says. “Every single block in Wilkes-Barre will have a row of houses that are immaculate—generally retired, white working class, and union. Cut grass and a tomato garden in the back. But sadly, within the last twenty years, we’ve seen a lot of what I call economic refugees from New York and New Jersey who have moved in under Section 8 housing.
I wonder if Tony includes among the takers the one-percent whose taxes keep getting cut and the corporations which often pay little or no taxes at all. Only certain sorts of "takers" seem to qualify for scorn here. Any cognizance of Trump stiffing his employees and contractors, his investors? If Trump is not the king of all takers, who is?
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