I've come to think that the laziest, but also the most perverse and pervasive reasoning plaguing our society is the conflation of government handouts with compassion.
You can spend two minutes debating with a leftist before he or she will call you "callous" (if they have the command of the English language which most of them lack) if you're opposed to government healthcare, or housing, or anything else.
This is what the Marxists rely upon. "We use the state to help people." Those of us who live in the real world see that giving the state more power is the road to Hell regardless of intentions.
But, that's what leftists fall back on. "If you don't want the government to provide X, you don't want X to be provided." That's bullshit on every level.