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To those people (conservatives), charity is for the “deserving”, which most of these people aren’t in their view. This is why conservatives prefer charity be left to the rich and private organizations to decide who is deserving of what charity (and for the tax breaks) rather than the government using tax dollars to give it to everyone. Furthermore, it is abhorrent to them to be forced to give charity via taxes, especially to “just anyone”, especially those they may feel “undeserving” for whatever arbitrary reason they may invent.
These people don’t believe that they can be on top unless people are ground to dirt beneath them because they see life as a zero-sum game which must be “won” at the expense of others, and that this is the “natural order of things”. The very idea of disrupting this hierarchy with the concept of equality or equity is profane to conservatives, so they will fight any attempt at it.
This video from The Alt Right Playbook does a good job of explaining this:
Endnote 3: The Origins of Conservatism