"Callously cutting benefits for a miniority of the populat is populist for the selfish majority."

The beauty of this argument is that it works for any level of welfare at any given time. Dems could award unemployment benefits of 100K per year and when Reps point out this is crazy, unsustainable, and unfair to tax payers you can trot out the "Callously cutting benefits". Is there any form of welfare reduction you wouldn't call callous? What about the "Callous theft of the incomes from hardworking taxpayers"?

-"Poor minority" demand free medical care ? Steal it from the middle class -"Poor minority demand" ..paid vacation, paid sick leave, paid maternity leave, 4 day work week, free childcare, free whatever.... Steal it from the middle class

And before you say "The middle class gets to benefit from it too!!!" Thats a bunk argument because if they wanted those services they would pay for them like every other service. All of this is just wealth redistribution from those are creating value to those who arent for the market.