Seems to me what they're deprived of is a reasonably honest government. Though you're not the first to propose solving poverty by getting rid of the poor. Have you read Swift's A Modest Proposal? Granted Swift was a satirist.
This is a very good point mary. In countries where there is private ownership of property along with individual civil rights, entrepreneurship, accountability, and responsibility, there is far less abject poverty. While there are “poor” in this country, the number who live in utter squalor is very small per capita than many other countries.