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The poor are useful to oligarchs and tyrants. During their early and mid adult years, they can be put to work for the enrichment of the ruling class. Without healthcare, of course, they will die at a younger age, relieving the ruling class of the responsibility of feeding them. Their children, at least the ones who are strong and healthy enough to survive childhood, will replace their parents as workers in due time. This cycle can be repeated again and again, providing a pool of workers whose needs can be completely ignored. There are plenty of poor workers to be exploited, and more are being created on a daily basis.
For people like many congressional office-holders, providing benefits to such poor workers and their offspring is counter-productive. That is especially true of healthcare. If the sick and sickly do not die, they must be fed and housed, so healthcare for the poor has negative consequences and interferes with enrichment.
It's also true of education. Educating poor people interferes with their involuntary obedience. Intelligence is distributed among the poor as it is in all groups of people. Educating the children of the poor creates dissatisfaction when some realize that they are being used as little more than cogs in a machine. If education is limited, there are fewer problems and the poor can still work for the rich without revolting.
This unspoken reality forms the foundation of the conservative oligarchy.