Similar reasoning applies to giving welfare payments to the underclass.
If there was no underclass, taxpayers could have spent the money on themselves.
Excellent point. Society will always have poor people; churches and other charities were quite successful in helping them out.
Once Mother Government could buy votes by making it a ‘generational lifestyle’ she had to keep a gun pointed at the heads of others to pay for it.
Check any ‘government program’ that was designed to ‘help.’ None of them are ever self-funding.
Grrrr!