&gt;It&#x27;s kind of funny how expecting welfare recipients to work is &quot;exploitative&quot; but expecting workers to involuntarily support welfare recipients is not.<p>Well, if the stream of incomes directed at rentiers were instead redirected towards welfare recipients, workers would have to do <i>no more supporting than they do now</i>.<p>This could be done by:<p>* Raising land taxes<p>* Taxing wealth<p>* Taxing yield bearing assets<p>* Remove carried interest rule.<p>And then paying for welfare with that.<p>Or we could keep pretending that billionaire moochers aren&#x27;t more expensive for society than welfare recipients.