Well, if you want to get abstract, the money itself is &quot;free,&quot; printed by the Fed almost arbitrarily. By any number of mechanisms that money ends up primarily concentrated in one group of very wealthy people.<p>You can divert that &quot;free&quot; money and have &quot;free&quot; things for the middle class. That the wealthy would then be &quot;paying&quot; for it is a philosophical perspective that presupposes the status quo for wealth distribution is somehow &quot;correct&quot;