I had a cousin that was on welfare and medicaid and my aunt had to write him out of her will because the State would have taken every dime in reimbursement.
This isn’t even welfare state, it is clawfare state.
The huge irony is that most church charities could do vastly better, given the resources.
The church really flubbed it big time when it gave into being snookered into outsourcing charity to Caesar, and it doesn’t matter how big a mail room Caesar has, it ain’t obligated to glorify God like churches are.
One obvious opportunity dropped here is the opportunity to show Christ. When Christ gives charity He doesn’t “claw it back.”
We have a lot of sobering up to do as churches and as a country methinks. The piper has come for his vigorish.
There are ways around that......................