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To: Ohioan
The notion of having the welfare of the needy under the purview of the "tithing" of the (Church?) community is attractive.

However...

"To those who are able to help themselves a little, or have friends from whom they derive some succours, inadequate however to their full maintenance, supplementary aids are given, which enable them to live comfortably in their own houses, or in the houses of their friends. Vagabonds, without visible property or vocation, are placed in workhouses, where they are well clothed, fed, lodged and made to labour."


That sounds a bit like, at best, a share cropped feudal arrangement - and at worst "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need".


22 posted on 02/15/2017 9:48:27 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: HLPhat

You surely would not prefer Federally funded public housing projects, or subsidized Section 8, housing. What the Vestrymen provided was not similar to that. It was all based upon local arrangements, by people able to vet all relevant aspects of the situation.


26 posted on 02/15/2017 10:51:32 AM PST by Ohioan
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