> idea that money can’t be found without siphoning it from the growing essential workforce that drives to work (or drives for work) and lives pay check to pay check is just nonsense.

I have to disagree. Rich people have money, working class people have productivity. Money doesn't create things, it just moves them around. Everything done by the government necessarily displaces productive resources from workers. If we take x% of the workforce and have them building reactors instead of Y, there will be less of Y to go around, and the rich will employ money to make sure their portion of Y is unaffected.