Your assumptions are wrong -
1. People are poor because they are lazy. Let's take the US as example. For every poor person, you can find a few who are working two to three jobs to pay the bills.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41930107
It does not matter why they are poor. Poor people should be encouraged to help themselves and not rely on the state aka other people's money.
Doesn't this prove my point that poor people are lazy and stupid? All they need to do is google and they will know where they stand relative to the national median income!
Taxes is used to make a better society for all. If it is everyone to themselves, chaos will ensued. And this is what we are seeing all over the world because the majority see capitalism benefitting on the upper levels of society (top 20 percent). The others slog to eke out a living and see their fortunes dwindled. The masses are footing the bills disproportionally and they are fed up.
If you are in the middle class and not getting ahead, direct your anger at the rich, not the others below your socio-economic status.
Forced transfer payments in the name of social harmony is EXTORTION period. As Milton Friedman said government's role should be limited to: external defence, internal policing, setting rules of the game and settling disputes when it is alleged that those rules have been broken. There will be no chaos. Everyone for himself is limited by the rules of the game eg. food produced must be fit for human consumption and government inspections and audits will be in place to ensure that - paid for with taxpayers' money. However, if you get lung cancer because you choose to inhale poison, then that's your own problem, hospitals private or public will be prohibited from providing you with medical treatment. Even private doctors are trained with public money and public resources should not be wasted on useless idiot smokers who are better off dead.
Conservatives and bleeding heart liberals have different opinions on what is a "better" society. Liberals are free to use their own money to help create their version of a "better" society, but they are not allowed to use my money for a vision which I don't share.
I am in the middle class and I don't need to get ahead. Neither am I so thick skinned as to demand that others help me just because they are rich. I believe in self reliance and I expect others to be self reliant too. Now, it is the poor who are wanting universal this and that and demanding that I cough up a larger share of my income to pay for things which these fucking poor people should be paying out of their own pockets. The rich, on the other hand, do not make any demands for a share of my hard earned money to fund anything for them. So why should I divert my anger from the poor to the rich?
The low socio-economic class also have disgusting habits that make it necessary for me to avoid them. Therefore, I am already paying more for the services I need because of the need to avoid these disgusting people ahem animals - eat in food court and not hawker centre or kopitiam, see private doctor and not polyclinic, fly Cathay Pacific and not Scott, stay at Mount E and not SGH if need to be hospitalised, etc. Just by being their disgusting selves and showing no desire nor aptitude to improve, they are already imposing a cost ahem tax on me - the care, planning and extra $ spent in order to avoid unwanted proximity to these SCUMS. Therefore, they deserve
from me.
