In my opinion, one of the reasons for the drain in our community ethics is the amount of effort by legislators who are fighting against the welfare state to focus on making welfare unavailable instead of a focus on making it unnecessary. If you don't want people on welfare, the solution is not to cut off the capital supply, but instead to boost the support structure beneath the people who need it, with education, health care and opportunities. So much of the efforts from one side of the aisle has been just wanting to cut off all funding instead of building up our communities so that we can take care of each other in the first place.

I don't want to take money from one group (the rich) and give it to other people (the poor). I want to build up the working class and those in poverty so that they don't need extra help.