When I see a homeless beggar lying on the sidewalk with a cigarette butt in his lips and the neck of a bottle protruding from a brown paper bag, I see a taxpayer... alcohol taxes, tobacco taxes, who knows how many other taxes.
Taxes for the construction of the sidewalk. And for the street sweeper.
There are a surprising number of progressives / socialists here on what is a primarily a speculation forum
... for a libertarian project.