I had this conversation recently with a colleague that’s on the right but not really giving it any thoughts. He’s mostly voting for “meritocracy” so this kind of arguments is central to him.

I think it comes back to the idea that taxes are not “your money” to begin with, that you are involved, affected and protected by a network, and taxes is just the way we collectively agreed to keep all of us afloat as a regulated community.

Once agreed on that, the sting of “giving my money to the lazy” is reduced. Furthemore it’s not like a no income life is one of luxury, we as a collective decided that starving should be prevented no matter what, and that’s basically all the system is even trying to achieve.

So you can rest easy, the “lazy” are still suffering.