We need good people in government with imagination, who would plan for workers to earn a sufficient living. Visionaries, who don't care for riches and power, but for ongoing education, for old and young people, encouraging art, music, poetry. Without art, a city would be a desert.
Government should create better conditions for those, who for any or no reason, cannot help themselves. Protect not only the upper class but also the underclass, where hunger and homelessness hurt. To rely for help on relatives or neighbors, as has been suggested, life would be impossible, intolerable.
The rich protest paying more taxes. They can only eat so much, cannot eat money, they would not care to share.