The OP had a point. Most common thing why people are poor, is because of their own actions. In the west atleast. Of course, there are lots of people who can't help their position, but that's the minority.
As for the social welfare, it has two purposes:
Keep the poor people alive.
Keep the poor people spending.
In a modern capitalistic society, we don't have anything, that didn't benefit the capitalist. Sometimes it benefits the poor too and sometimes don't.
Now, when it comes to taxes, keep in mind that government isn't a corporation that's supposed to make profit, governent is supposed to have a bottomline of 0 and use the taxes collected to create welfare for the people.
Everyone can argue how the money could be used better, but the idea is to keep money in the circulation, since the worst thing that could happen is to have it removed from the market into savings, for example.
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