Your last paragraph is the bit that resonates with me.
Paying taxes to treat people humanely and with dignity is a good option because when people are desperate, riots and violence are not far away.
And if your thoughts are to push people to that extreme so you can be violent against them, then it is you who are the lesser person.
I wish more people had that attitude.
Instead, in the US, we have people actively making their own lives worse because they don't want to give others things they don't believe they "deserve".
If taking more out of my paycheck would get all the homeless people off the streets, I would happily do that. I personally believe that everyone has a right to housing, but even if I didn't care about people, I'd be ok with it because getting homeless people off the streets makes my life better too.
Ensuring that people aren't insecure about housing and food translates to lower crime rates and safer neighborhoods.
It makes me genuinely angry that anti-welfare people don't get this, and actively lobby against their own interest. I'm sure there are some people who just believe that welfare programs don't work, and are against them on those grounds, but most of the rhetoric I hear seems to be around not giving people things they haven't worked for and don't deserve.