Juddian:
the below is attributed to one Dr Adrian Rogers, though the source may be disputed, the general gist from back in 1931 is entirely valid.''You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
What one person receives without working for, another must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from someone else.
When half of the people get the idea they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea it does no good to work because someone else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
That could just as easily apply to the rich receiving excess profits for little or no work, whilst people who actually go to work receive little or nothing in wages.