Lawrence Lindsey explains how liberals make income inequality worse

Of all the ideas that are considered articles of faith among conservatives, few inspire more derision among liberals than the idea that government transfer payments disincentivize work. The liberal argument is that government benefits never offer a high enough quality of life to equal what you could get from a job, so the idea that anyone would sit around and collect welfare when a job would put them in a much better place is crazy. True? It seems like a sound argument at first glance, but the real impact of government-led class warfare is more psychological. It changes the way people think about how you get money. The more they listen to politicians telling them that businessmen are their enemy, or see trial lawyers on daytime television telling them the way to change your life is to sue someone, the less they believe their best path forward is individual initiative and industriousness. It's not that they wouldn't do it if they knew how, or if they believed it could really help them, but they've been sold by politicians constantly telling them it can't work because "the system is rigged" against them, so they might as well put all their hopes in the idea that some public official will "fight for them."