"Are there no workhouse?" ... "Are there no prisons?" (Stave 1 - Scrooge talking to the charity workers and refusing to give to charity)

. The rhetorical questions suggest what scrooge believes where the poor should be, as the poor were seen as lazy and animals . This also suggests that the problem with the poor is nothing to do with him, and he is nothing to do with the matter, as the poor have bought it on themselves