All taxes paid to support welfare are reparations for choosing to be more productive with your life.
This kinda ties in with the point I was making about people in power labelling with inaccurate labels for the sole purpose of marginalizing diverse groups.
Welfare has grown into such a giant monster of government authority that the government has had to resort to mislabelling wealthy people as criminals and poor people as victims in order to justify their power. The actual rhetoric of politicians on the left is that the rich steal the wealth from the poor. This broad mislabelling of wealthy as criminals is so laughable when you take any NBA millionaire for example. Most of the wealthy NBA players steal exactly zero wealth from the poor. In fact most of them grew up in poverty and worked their way up using exceptional effort, not criminal endeavors against the poor.
Wealth is not a zero sum game, and people from one generation to another move up and down wealth brackets. Most of the millionaires in 2018 were self-made (with a lot of help from a robust stock market). There is no upper limit to how hard a person can work to invest in himself to become productive and create wealth where there was none to begin with. While there may be SOME wealthy criminals like Soros who purchases politicians for the sole purpose of manipulating markets through the force of government regulations, literally stealing from the poor by forcing devaluations on their capital and purchasing it with pennies on the dollar through his hedge funds, the vast majority of the rich plays by the rules and does not use force through the government to steal from the poor.
So when Bernie Sanders pounds his fist on his podium and demands that the all the criminal rich pay their fair share for stealing from the poor, you know that he is asking for reparations from the all the wealthy to compensate the victimized poor. That is how broad labels were used to transform what used to be a basic social safety net that everyone was okay with 70 years ago into the current welfare monstrosity that eats up trillions of dollars of our budget we cannot afford. The government maintains the broken system by pitting one group against another using fake labels: "Criminal wealthy" vs "Victimized poor." Government knows how to divide and conquer to maintain power, so it's not just limited to only race baiting using broad skin color labels to pit one group against another.