I find this a bit judgmental - Tattoos could have been gotten years ago, I quit smoking cold turkey two decades ago but my old man smoked until he died of cancer, you can give yourself a manicure so just because you have one doesn't mean you spent very much on it, and I haven't had a drop of liquor in years but this is one of the four I really agree with.

I'm disabled and can see both sides of this (CP walk w/ a limp). When I was in HS, I ran away from home to escape child abuse and needed welfare. I made sure to graduate HS because I knew without a HS diploma I couldn't do anything later on, and I also graduated from two technical schools as well, one for Computer Information Systems, and the other in Master Recording II (Audio Engineering.) Stigmatizing people on welfare doesn't help the people who really need it. Also government programs keep people poor as a requirement of getting much needed health insurance, for example. And if you're disabled, you have a pre-existing condition, which means you can't get health insurance, unless it's a group plan via an employer, and if you lose your job, you're back to square one. And I have lost jobs due to no fault of my own - downsizing, mergers, etc...  

After I ran away from home, I was a junior in HS, I used to work my tail off. Not only did I make sure to graduate HS a technical school at the same time, I worked a lot, I was in a bunch of school activities and did a bunch of community service (I received a service award), but I also used to swim daily as well. My roommates by contrast would sit at home and play video games all day. (One of them was living off of money he got from his aunt, and the other one lived off of the one who lived off the money the first one got from his aunt.) Later on I applied for Railroad Retire benefits as a dependent because my old man worked for the railroad, and I was denied because I worked too much. Had I sat on my rear end all day and played video games until I was 24 years old, I would have been fine. Ben Shapiro wrote in "Bullies" that the safety net is safety for the lazy and a net for the productive. I know many disabled who don't work because they can only earn $1260 a month/ $15,120 a year before they lose their health insurance. Now replacing one income with another is no big deal, but losing health insurance is. If you have a pre-existing condition, and your employer doesn't offer it, or it's not as good as Medicare (Creditable Coverage), you can't work, even if you can physically or you can work from home. For some people, there's more to it than just being lazy.

https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/sga.html

On the flip side, I was a tax prepared for six seasons, and my manager used to get mad as I took two busses and walked a quarter mile in snow and ice to get to work, while people who were on government services were driving brand new vehicles. A lot of these people would manipulate Earned Income Credit (EIC) by working temp jobs up to the max allowed then quit the rest of the year allowing them to get thousands of dollars in tax returns with three kids and getting welfare. 

It’s those who game the system who's the real problem. Like those who lie or manipulate the process to get government benefits. The single mother who claims some guy who isn't is the father, a foster parent who elaborates to get a bigger subsidy longer, the corner store owner scamming the food stamp program, or those who pretend they can't work when they can, for example. These are the people who cost the government, and you the taxpayer, thousands of dollars a month. The guy buying a 40 and a pack of Marlboro's is small fry in comparison.