Scrapping Welfare

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Which makes me doubly glad that I was not born during those times.

I like being treated as having full moral agency instead of as a perpetual minor.
 
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That’s the thing. It isn’t so much that the economy supported it. It was that the state didn’t take such a big chunk of our wealth. If we paid less in taxes we’d have more money to live off of.
 
Fair enough. It would be a gradual process to get back to a more sane scenario. But I think we can at least agree what the ideal scenario would be (I’m arguing exactly that 100% of “welfare” would be covered through charity). This ideal would also include an extreme reduction in taxes, of course.
 
I think it would take more than just cutting taxes though. Our whole social culture has shifted. It used to be that it was just taken for granted that you gave a certain percentage of your income to the church - and pretty much everyone attended the same church.

Now there’s a wide array of people who give in many different directions and may not even feel that it’s their job to do so. That’s unfortunately the downside of the capitalist mindset - that there are more people out there who feel the poor deserve their lot and that anyone who is able to work can find a job that meets their needs.
 
As I recall what would demonstrate this is not the tax rates but the percent of GDP spent on government at all levels.
 
ucfengr said:
When you say “scrapping welfare”, are you talking about federal, state, local, and private welfare?
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Sorry for the late reply.

I essentially mean any government funded initiative that uses tax payers money to support the unemployed,

I don’t know what private welfare is.
 
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Absolutely not. I personally believe you committed a mortal sin if you won’t help the poor in any way, shape, or form.

Jesus talked about helping the poor many times in his parables.
 
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Or even non-profit activites of for-profits. CSR is becoming a big thing. No reason why it couldn’t be harvested to fill the shortage when we kick the government out.
 
EvangelistVictor said:
Absolutely not. I personally believe you committed a mortal sin if you won’t help the poor in any way, shape, or form.
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is the government really helping the poor or keeping them poor? government welfare is destroying he family unit. which is the greater sin?
 
blackforest said:
Some conservatives argue that welfare should occur entirely through private intervention, namely churches and non-profits.
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It is amazing how fast those same conservatives backtrack when you suggest that maybe medicare should be taken care of by private donations.
 
No. There must be a safety net.

I remember the implementation of the “War on Poverty” in the Johnson administration. Since then, billions have been spent on eradicating poverty.

Poverty has increased.

If a law or program has proved detrimental, should it not be eliminated and replaced?
 
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