Kill the Poor/Playing With

Basic Trope: A member of the ruling class opts to handle poverty by allowing the poor to be executed.
 * Straight: President Smith develops a plan to end poverty by allowing those in Trope Land who are below the poverty line to be gathered and executed.
 * Exaggerated:
 * Smith to make the poor an Unperson after their execution has been completed.
 * Smith considers having his proposal expanded by including the global population of those under the line.
 * Downplayed: Smith opts to have the homeless be put slavery, such as prison labor, rather than kill them.
 * Smith expels all poor people from his country/state/county/location.
 * Justified:
 * Smith’s proposal was due to the discovery of a rebellion that could have the President killed.
 * A food storage forces Smith to seek plan in order to solve the problem, which sadly includes reduce the number of mouths.
 * Inverted: Smith decides to have members of the wealthy be executed and could have their remains as a food source.
 * Subverted: Smith’s proposal was just a scare tactic to prevent any form of rebellion from the poor.
 * Double Subverted: The Secret Police begin looking and killing the homeless thought out the land, while Smith’s announcement draws away suspicion of his involvement.
 * Exploited: John sees if there’s a paying job to exterminate the poor since he found a way to get away with killing people.
 * Averted: Smith solves the poverty problem in the land without killing or criminalization the poor.
 * Invoked: Smith’s plan was made to further his Zero-Approval Gambit.
 * Defied: Smith will never allow the killing of the poor, even with situations that is tempting like a nation-wide food shortage.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Smith finds out the poor don’t give up on the right to survive and have  guerrilla tactics to do so.
 * Smith’s loses supports, even among the wealthy for his strategy. As a result, he’s either impeached and/or voted out of office.