This is the classic red herring sleight of hand people use to vilify any attempts to cut government spending — assuming all “life-giving” programs are unassailable by virtue of the fact they *purport* to benefit people who are not wealthy. It is this very (oftentimes unconscious) assumption that many unscrupulous actors use to defraud the taxpayer, using sympathetic causes as a shield to make questioning their impropriety politically problematic. Until we can get over this notion that every organization that says they do “good” things is unquestionably good, this will remain a major pipeline for fraud and abuse.