moocher

Contra DeSantis’s insinuations about immigrant moochers, these are people who want to work and become economically self-sufficient.

“That couch cost me twenty-five bucks! Do you have twenty-five bucks? No. Because you’re nothing but a lazy moocher!”

Scott couched this proposal in the language of moochers, takers and freeloaders, with culture-war rhetoric dating to the welfare-queen references of the Reagan era.

This new test seems to be a way for Netflix to nudge moochers into buying their own subscriptions — or at least for account owners to pay up for anyone using the service outside their households.

"Trump's populist rhetoric temporarily obscured what is central to Republican orthodoxy: that half of Americans are takers and moochers," Rep. Brandon Boyle, D-Pa., told the Washington Post.