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Let's actually work through this for one moment.
I'm in favor of ending all current welfare programs and just handing poor people money, on a graduated level, until their net income hits a certain amount (let's say 200% of current poverty line). Cuts the infrastructure, and helps them more than this plan full of cutoffs.
How exactly does this not benefit companies they will buy things from? How is this materially different from giving subsidies to a company?
If you don't like billionaires, tax them.
It's always the least-informed people who pop off like this. You ever notice that?