Required reading on the subject - The Forgotten Man, by Amity Schlaes.
The Forgotten Man is the taxpayer who wasn’t getting any of the government largesse, but was paying for it.
I have read it and highly recommend it--along with all of her books.
Forgotten Man--Joan Blondell with the Warner-Vitaphone Orchestra (1933)
I heard of it but didn’t read it. I should.
Have Great Society by her, about the total failure of “affordable housing” and other welfare perks for being lazy but a valued Dem voting minority (starting mainly in late 1964). Billions a year wasted.