Don’t you think welfare replaced Christian charity?
Not exactly, according to Huckabee. Welfare from big government and high taxes filled the gap because people were not generous enough:
"I'm often asked why taxes are so high and government is so big. It's because the faith we have in local churches has become so small. If we'd been doing what we should have -- giving a dime from every dollar to help the widows, the orphans and the poor -- we now wouldn't be giving nearly 50 cents of every dollar to a government that's doing ... what we should have been doing all along."
People were just too selfish with their own money, or so says Huckananny.