This is an ignorant line of argumentation. First of all the great majority of welfare, benefits, subsidies, etc. go to the rich. Only crumbs go to the poor. Secondly there are all sorts of regulations and burdens that disproportionately burden the poor. For starters, the monetary and banking systems we have were designed primarily to benefit the rich at the expense of the poor. A complicated tax code was created to benefit the rich at the expense of the poor. Government mandated occupational licensure and certification laws criminalize self-starters and entrepreneurs from backgrounds unfriendly to formal schooling, usually the poor. A compulsory funded and compulsory attended education system was literally designed to stultify and retard individual initiative and exceptionalism for the benefit of the owners and managers of industry and finance, in addition to militarists who needed a national identify to replace family, community, and state identity to command cannon fodder overseas to their deaths to defend multinational corporate interests (again benefiting wealthy owners of stocks). I'm talking deeply entrenched and structural features of the government that create additional poverty and make upward mobility more difficult than it otherwise should be. The answer isn't more welfare for the poor, of course, but instead to end all protectionist policies that benefit the rich at the expense of the poor.
