1. Progressive taxes hurt the needy the most. As is evident in California where modestly progressive state income taxes have resulted in 110,000 people paying 55% of the income tax so that we get extreme volatility in tax receipts to the State. Consequently payments to the needy go up rapidly in good times and go down painfully in bad times. Only the needy are hurt by the progressive tax idea.
3. Food activists promote organic high cost farming and legally penalize the rapidly growing output of conventional farming that lowers the cost of all food, especially meat. The Whole Foods model of food and farming is an insolent slap in the face to the needy underclass.
5. Lefty hostility to chain stores means that Target and WalMart are kept out of low income urban areas that would reduce a needy family's costs by several thousand dollars a year and provide jobs in high unemployment areas.
Do you get the message? The Left is really bad for the needy ...the exact opposite of the Lefts' self-righteous academic, trustifarian, union propaganda.