One of the major pillars of socialism is the taking of money from the working (middle) class who earned it and giving it to BOTH the very poor and the very rich in order to keep the ruling class in power. Sort of a "reverse Robin Hood" if you will. The ruling class benefits not only from the working class labor but from the taxes taken from them.
Socialist radio commentators Rush Limbaugh, Lars Larson and others will condemn social welfare but will not condemn corporate welfare. Despite their many platitudes they do not wish to return us to the America that once was where we had freedom and opportunity limited only by one's own ambition.