Yes, I’m not talking about “social programs.” I’m talking about the individual service of one person towards others, because only an individual (or a few individuals) has even a chance of helping others with their real needs.
Individual charity is fine. Forced charity is slavery. No man should be used as another mans slave.
The biggest problem in America today is forced charity for those who are NOT in need. They just want to live a work free, lucrative, comfortable life on the backs of everyone else. As long as the politicians can continue to feed on our tax dollars, the sloth will continue to feed on them as well. This is why, if every American cut back on anything with an attached tax, the politicians would have no choice but to pay attention. WE outnumber them.
We can survive without the governments money, but the government can't survive without ours. It's up to us to tell THEM how to spend it, or we're not going to let them have it anymore.
Sure, the self serving politicians will try to tax us even more, but if they do, those tax payers who aren't paying that much attention to politics will start, because they'll be feeling the pain as much as everyone else. The silent majority would not be happy.
The PTB have a secret they don't want us to know. We who pay taxes hold all the power over the politicians. We outnumber them. We call the shots. People have just forgotten.