Obama would instead give those folks "food stamps" and such - that also helps mega-farms sell some of their excess taxpayer-subsidized food commodities, to taxpayers, for distribution to the poor.
Sceptics might imagine that perhaps an excess of taxpayers' resources has been lavished on this foul deed, whose heinousness is less glaring to the callow.
It was the first in a series of narrowly targeted tax cuts that Republicans plan to bring up this year in an effort to portray President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and Democrats in Congress as unwilling to return the government's excess revenues to taxpayers.
It cost the British taxpayer in excess of £8m.
But what will be the excess cost that the taxpayer has to shoulder?
The proposals by justice secretary Chris Grayling to remove legal aid from prisoners are unlikely to spark riots on the scale of Strangeways, which cost the taxpayer in excess of £150m.
The series of inquiries - which have cost the taxpayer in excess of £12m - found that Paul was drink-driving when the Mercedes carrying the Princess and her lover, pursued by paparazzi, hit the 13th pillar of the Alma Tunnel in Paris on August 31 1997.
And he suggested that the alternative to sending excess revenues back to taxpayers was to unleash a flood of new spending.
True supply-siders say that tax cuts will not only keep the economy healthy, but that returning excess revenue to the taxpayers is the best way to stop the relentless growth of government.
To win over the teachers' union, the Corzine administration agreed to loosen a provision requiring about 120 school districts that are already spending more than what the state deemed to be adequate to return any excess money to local taxpayers.
Title: Conservative MP for Haltemprice and Howden and former shadow home secretary Stands accused of: spending in excess of £10,000 of taxpayers' money on home improvements over four years, including a new £5,700 portico for his Yorkshire home.
