I'm getting so sick of people prefacing stuff like this with "this isn't ideological". Yes, it is ideological, because the ideology causing this is the ideology that says government is limited to a small number of specific goals which just so happen to include protecting the interests of the wealthy.
These problems won't be solved in a "non-ideological" way. It has to be solved by directly opposing and eradicating the ideology that is pushing this kind of nonsense.