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Originally Posted by VRM
Just curious. I know you are a lot more religious than I am, and I wanted to know what your reaction was.
You've also mentioned in previous posts (well, maybe a year or three ago) that if you (and others) paid less taxes that there would be more charitable contributions to help out the needy, instead of that charity coming form the welfare programs. Do you still think that is true?
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Not sure how I said that... but what I mean is if there was a culture of giving, then yes. Instead, there has been an abdication of that role and the public now expects the govenment to do it. Over time, yes, I would expect the public to give more if the the government took less. Today, Mandatory spending is almost twice that of discretionary spending. ALL of the mandatory spending in unconstitutional. (nearly 2 trillion per year)
2 trillion is a lot of money.
Mike