@alexisbushnell
My feeling is that the people who say that are exactly the kind of people who would act fraudulently, and cheat the system, if they could. So they expect that everyone else must also be doing that.

Also, they are so greedy that they can't have some other people getting something that they can't get for themselves.

Yes, it is hypocritical.
"If I could fraudulently have that benefit, I would, but I can't, so those who do have it must be cheating me out of it somehow!"

@Maker_of_Things @alexisbushnell I can't believe this is true. That would imply a majority -- or at least an electorally significant minority -- of people were greedy and selfish, but in my everyday life I meet very few people who are either of those things.

I think that the tiny minority of greedy and selfish people tend to accumulate wealth and therefore become powerful, and that's why politicians follow them -- because we allow unlimited political donations.