"The poor used legal aid, not to sue the city and the school board, as political-minded antipoverty workers had hoped, but mainly to sue one another:"...
...We really don't want to help the poor but enable them to harass state and local government with lawsuits...
I would rather subsidize a woman suing for child support than have my money replace that the father should be paying.
That, too me, is a proper use of legal aid.
So is someone suing for debt collections, because they should be repaid.