Sorry, the last post was incomplete.
Do we have more levels of government than just the IRS?
It is the State and local governments and communities that take care of the poor. In New Hampshire, it was a State issue and local communities, the people who know the problems, administred the programs for the seriously needy. Churches and non-profits performed service to make things better for poor people, too.
This is the way the Tenth amendment is supposed to work, unlike the Temple of Ayn Rand that lives by the amoral creed of Darwinism and materialism.
Under the US constitution, you don’t get rid of the responsibilities of citizenship nor do you get rid of socialists working to redistribute other people’s wealth. You still have to fight them off, but at the State and local level, rather than the National level. You just don’t have the Federal government imposing insanity like Obamacare and National education on the whole country all at the same time.
In a constitutional Republic what we would work for at the State level is to minimize the State imposing a one size fits all mandate for the whole state and leave to the locals what can and should be handled at the local level. We would still have responsibility of taking care of the the truely needy. We are not Mexico, Africa or India.
Our creative and moral muscles have gone limp in this unconstitutional socialist Federal onslaught we have today where all power and most wealth is centered in an out of touch Federal government. That is why many Americans see no option but a man without insurance dying like a dog in the street. They would rather that than to continue on with the Federal abuse we suffer.
Excellent!