This argument underlies a LOT of conservative thinking. "I work hard to earn what I have; why should some deadbeat get free groceries while I'm busting my butt?"
There were basically two ways we could have bailed out the banks: we could have paid off the bad mortgages...
Or, we could just give the money directly to the banks, so they would be saved; but a bunch of people would be foreclosed on and lose their houses.
And I get it: it's deeply unfair. It's galling to sacrifice for something and then see someone get it for free.
Seriously, he has a whole parable about exactly this kind of thinking. Matthew 20:1-16, the story of the laborers in the vineyard.