In my humble opinion Welfare, Social Security, minimum wage, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Federal education, taxpayer funded insurance and the Federal Reserve; all of it is unconstitutional.
In the Constitution, Article 1 Section 8 enumerates and limits Federal power and the Tenth Amendment reserves all other powers to the states or the people themselves.
This is what the Democrats have gotten wrong since Wilson.
The Constitution would never have been ratified by the several States if it were considered to be a blank check for the federal government.
I am not opposed to helping those in need; I am opposed to having the federal government do it as it is unconstitutional.
The need is to reform the tax code, institute a fair tax code, eliminate deficits, pay off the government debts, make the safety net safer, take care of those unable to care for themselves and reset government functions back to the originally intended functions of Article 1 Section 8. See one way to do it here: