First of all, social mobility is alive and well. The poor are not a permanent class, nor are the middle class or rich. My family was poor when I was a young child, but my father was determined we would not stay that way, and we moved up to the point where I went to college, worked hard all my life and now am an upper middle class retiree.

That being said, the poor pay little for our social safety nets, with food stamps, set aside housing, and many other existing programs. I'm fine with that, making sure the opportunity for food, clothing, housing, and medical care exists to prevent starvation. However, the taxes needed for all the new free stuff is going to make life harder for the middle class. Taxing corporations more aggressively only means they pass along the added cost to the consumer. The very rich can take the hit on taxes, but they invest less, which results in fewer jobs for both the middle class and the poor.

Why should hard working blue collar person have to provide free college to enable a younger person to jump ahead? Why should any of us provide medical care and retirement to invaders who didn't pay into the system?

A "free" medical care system shows its worth by creating a two layer system of care. Those wealthy enough can have the best of care, delivered promptly, because they pay out of pocket. The rest have to deal with longer wait times for elective care, and lower quality treatment.

Hey, I don't have any money for them to steal! I had the oil changed, tires rotated, and car inspected today and it cost $109.00! They can buy their own food. I worked 52 years to get to this point.

Who really pays? Taxpayers. That's the long and the short of it. And who are the majority of taxpayers? It actually isn't those at the bottom, but the Middle Class. The Left HATES the Middle Class. They want to re-instigate the feudal period of elites/lords and peasants because it is all about control. Taxes predominantly harm the Middle Class - whether in the form of property taxes, sales taxes, or income taxes. That's why the original US government had ZERO of those - they taxed foreigners instead. I'm all for the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment but barring that, I want a flat tax with no exceptions.

The first victims are "everyone who has saved dollars" as deficit spending is used to fund it

The second victims are the politically powerless people whose taxes and fees CAN be raised without political blowback. Things like excise taxes on all sorts of goods and services, increased tariffs (really a way to impose double sales taxes on imported products, to an extent-property taxes, sales taxes on interstate sales not currently taxed.

The third victims would be the consumers who will have to pay more sales taxes when they buy what they need to live.

Seriously, I heard today that nothing in the Constitution allows for debt. Congress is not supposed to spend money like they do giving trillions to 3rd world countries. They can levy on imports, and taxes on us but there is nothing that says they can fund these other countries! I am going to study that for myself.

The government can't afford to bring the people up from the bottom. If the individual is working toward his/her own happiness why should him/her be working to bring up the person from the bottom. When you have a political party trying to subvert the current economic system when then citizen has to pay for the poor and the illegal alien's healthcare. This country will start looking like either Ayn Rands "Anthem or the events that transpire in "Atlas Shrugged". I'm writing in this fashion because there is one member who isn't happy about the content and comments on this forum.
A question for the members: Have we lost our way according to this individual?