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⌈ Secret Post #2725 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Poverty and "luxury items" - a discussion

[iceyred]

I am Catholic. I don't mind paying taxes so the needy can eat. I do mind paying taxes so the 'needy' can pay the phone companies $86 a month to have the iphone they got as a gift.

There are plenty of things to enjoy if someone is poor. Libraries. Some museums. Parks. Friends.

Not wanting to subsidize someone's poor planning is not punishing them. It is allowing them to deal with the predictable consequences of their actions.

Re: Poverty and "luxury items" - a discussion

[iceyred]

II Thessalonians 3:10 states: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.

Like I stated above, I'm okay with paying taxes to feed somebody while they look for a job, get through a rough time, etc. What I'm not okay with is paying taxes to feed someone while they spend their money on things they don't need. One is needy and the other is greedy, and Luke 12:15 states: And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Also, I live in a country where the Founding Fathers were wise enough to give us the separation of church and state. Not everybody who pays taxes believes in the Bible so it shouldn't be used as a justification for welfare from public funds.

Ben Franklin (who certainly did not grow up in a rich household) wrote: I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.