The entire fundamental premise of social spending is about a large majority helping out a small minority.
Veterans benefits work because not everyone in the country uses them. Same for normal welfare programs, or anything designed to help a minority that needs help.
You can't have everyone in a country living off the taxpayer.
Europe is burning down because of this fallacy, and idiots in this country are trying to drag us into the same flames. Universal welfare in any category is death, and the sooner we get the idiots pushing it out of office the better.
Our deficits right now are well over a trillion a year. No "tax the rich" proposal yet made, or combination of them, brings in enough money to cover just that deficit, never mind the rest of the ever-growing budget.