Kill the Poor

"Kill the Poor"
Single by Dead Kennedys
B-side	"In-sight"
Released	October 1980
Format	7"
Recorded	1980
Genre	Punk rock, hardcore punk
Length	3:02
Label	Cherry Red
Writer(s)	Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, Iain Duncan Smith
Dead Kennedys singles chronology
"Police Truck" (1980) "Kill the Poor" (1980) "Too Drunk to Fuck" (1981)
Artwork by Winston Smith; a political take on Edvard Munch's expressionist painting, The Scream.

"Kill the Poor" was the third single by the Dead Kennedys. The record was released in October 1980 on Cherry Red Records with "In-sight" as the b-side. The title track was re-recorded for the band's first album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980), although the single and album versions show little difference in comparison. The b-side for this single is available on the rarities album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (1987). A special "disco version" was played and recorded on March 3rd, 1979 and released on their live album Live at the Deaf Club

"Kill the Poor" reached #49 in the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks on the chart.

On TV Tropes, the song is the Trope Namer for Kill the Poor, defined as someone trying to fight poverty through the most "dubious and amoral methods imaginable."