rightwinger
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What have the poor done to deserve our support?
Those of you who call yourselves Christians need not ask this question if you are a true follower of Christ.
Anyone who is a true follower of christ knows you give personally and from your own heart... not having it raped from you whether you have the calling to give it or not
And in a country based on freedom... you have the freedom to be a miserly prick too, even if ones like you don't like it and want to be generous with someone else's money
It's amazing the people who push this crap think if you aren't paying taxes to the gov't then no charitable acts wil ever take place.
The truth is that the govt is the least efficient method of distributing anything that might actually help people. But in general gov't programs increase poverty and dependence. Which is probably the idea.
The truth is that charities are the least efficient. On top of exorbitant salaries of some charity CEOs, they have high overhead and are feast or famine depending on contributions
Public charities are a nice stopgap but they are incapable of handling the volume that the government can.
No country on earth relies on public charities to handle all their public welfare