The world always has and will have the poor. For me it is not the governments job to become Jehover Jira God our provider, They are there to serve.
Taxes are paid to provide goods and services for the people, the tax payers, but when people forget their Maker they oppress their neibhour in their feeble attempt to save the planet. Get back to the recipe for success and stop this left wing claptrap for there are no free feeds.
If you don't follow the recipe (basic principles) you have stuff ups and destroy peoples life. We only pass this way once there are no reruns. I worked hard all my life breeding an excellent herd of cattle only to see my life's work destroyed at the stroke of a pen. Very disheartening. Now those idiologs are still playing God in the mistaken belief that they have found a new recipe for success. I googled up the definition of science and came up with a completely different answer than what academia would have us believe. Education is knowledge not wisdom.