I'm not saying that all rich people are not hard-working, or that all poor people are, I'm saying that the narrative is that that is the case, and depending on

I'm not saying that all rich people are not hard-working, or that all poor people are, I'm saying that the narrative is that that is the case, and depending on how right-wing your newspaper, it can be pretty black and white. Given the scale of damage done by tax evasion by the rich compared to benefits fraud by the poor, this characterisation undermines attempts to try and match the amount of effort spent reclaiming taxes from the rich versus identifying benefit fraudsters to the revenue that could be reclaimed from each approach.