With all due respect to mom & pop, please consider this. As a consequence of the parents of many patriots not making sure that their now grown-up children were taught about the federal governments constitutional limited powers, such patriots do not understand the following.
Note that there has never been stopping the states from individually exercising their 10th Amendment-powers to start their own social spending programs.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress cannot appropriate taxes in the name of state power issues, the programs that you mentioned for example, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Also, if the states think that the feds can do a better job running social spending programs better then the states can (AHEM!), there has likewise never been anything stopping the states from amending the Constitution to grant the feds the specific powers to do so.
In fact, if Constitution-ignoring FDR and his corrupt Congress had successfully petitioned the states for amendments to the Constitution which granted the feds the specific powers that he needed to start his ”New Deal” federal spending programs, when we probably would not be having this discussion.
I respectively have to disagree with you there.
There are two current amendments (one of which is, IMO, void as it was passed under duress) that forbids the States from beginning their own social programs: The 5th and the 13th.
Govt, regardless of how ‘close’ to the Citizen it might be, it NOT an instrument of charity. It has neither the capacity to determine, let alone the authority to administer.
It is, and always will be, labeled appropriately, LONG before any of us were a gleam in our daddies eye: legalized THEFT.