Librarians, Keepers of the Liberty

Originally Posted by irishtrekker

Some people need help more than others, and I personally believe that it is the responsibility of those who've succeeded in society to give back by helping out those who truly struggle. I'm not talking about protecting deadbeats here, although those seem to be the only faces you see when you look at the poor. Your fixation on keeping every last almighty dollar that's rightfully yours is a bit disturbing. You can't take it with you anyway.

Individual Americans should be free to use their money in any way they choose ... including donating it to others whom they deem worthy of those donations ... even if they're "deadbeats" ... but ...

... it's an outrage for the government to confiscate money from Citizen A and hand it over to Citizen B ... for any reason whatsoever.

Private voluntary donations are fine and dandy ... government confiscation and allocation isn't.