I'm a big believer in the idea that if you give rich people more money, and poor people less money, that the poor people will not, in fact, get more rich. This is based on the fact that rich people are usually rich because they like to keep and/or spend their money, which is why they are rich in the first place.
Poor people do recieve money. It's the biggest industry in the world! Almost 5 trillion is spent annually on poverty in the US alone. I feel that poor people should not receive welfare/ aid, since most of it is squandered (ie I saw a woman using food stamps to buy oysters
) but rather incorporate them into industry where they can be useful.
A personal example of this- I used to volunteer with a food truck, we'd go to lower end neighboorhoods and give out food. I suggested one day that in order for the poeple to recieve their food they pick up and present 20 pieces of trash on recieval. To my astonsihment, the manger said OK; and thus the line length was cut in half. It seems many of these people have gotten to the point where they simply won't work to provide for themselves, since they know someone else will do it for them.
Haha, this post is somewhat unrelated but I really wanted to say this. Just so you know, I live in Los Angeles, so I am not very aware of how the poor are treated elsewhere, so forgive me if I seem too one-sided.