Evil, greedy businessmen, especially those of the bigoted sort, have been scheming to destroy the poor from within for decades, starting with the southern strategy. The idea was to leverage the hate that bigoted, religious blue collar white southerns had for minorities to divide and conquer (i.e., have poor religious whites ask for everything entitlement based to be taken away from them so they can hurt minorities in the process). It's worked brilliantly ever since. All the money that is not collected in taxes stays in the pockets of these rich assholes, and they get richer and more powerful by the day, "adjusting" the laws to their whim and fancy, consolidating wealth and power, and breeding hardship and discord amongst their would-be competition. Christian Fundamentalism and now right-wing media has been their indoctrinating tools of choice.