You need to check your facts, during the Carter administration, a very liberal tax and spend administration, where we had 21 % interest rates the government took in LESS revenue.
When Reagan was elected he cut taxes across the board including those EVIL rich people's taxes, we had tremendous economic growth. The government took in MORE tax revenue than the Carter administration simply because when you reduce taxes across the board, people will spend, save and invest because they have more of their own money to do so, this creates demand, which creates jobs and opportunities. Econ 101
Poor people do not pay taxes, THE UNEMPLOYED PERSON DOES NOT PAY TAXES- you can't squeese blood out of a turnip.
Every unemployed person I know smokes cigarettes and buys gas. So they do pay federal taxes.
And at the end of the year, they have nothing left over. That's why we want to give them some of your money. Spread it around.