Taxes are a penalty on progress.
Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.
Knaves will come and knaves will go.
The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.
Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.
We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.