Providing a base minimal level of living for each person tends to produce nice societies.  What people with money get in return for supporting the deadbeats is definitely worth the, not large, cost.  Having a massive security&#x2F;punishment apparatus is the inevitable result of not doing this unless one doesn&#x27;t mind living in a shitty society.<p>Paraphrasing H.L. Mencken: U.S. Libertarians&#x2F;Republicans can almost be defined as someone with the irrational fear that some poor person, somewhere is getting something they don&#x27;t deserve.