Whether somebody refuses to help in their own reclamation of personal responsibility IS relevant ... it's just that it is tangential to the issue of immoral taxation of which you speak. Under The Constitution, the federal government has no mandate to delve into funding any minimum standard of living for American citizens - NONE, NADA, ZILCH. The federal government is given authority to protect the nation from foreign threats, negotiate with foreign powers, secure the nation's borders, facilitate trade and good relations among the states, and ensure that the inalienable rights of all American citizens are honored - otherwise, the federal government is {pardon my rather direct speech} to Shut the Fuck Up and Stay the Fuck Out of Everyone's Business.
However, as I eluded to in my previous post on the Pope Board, yesterday, Statists (all libtards and the elites of the Republican establishment) warp and use the federal government to create their own plantation where they control who gets punished, who gets rewarded, and meanwhile, they live in luxury off the spoils. Productive Americans are enslaved by confiscatory taxes to pay for the wants and wishes of the Statists - that is out-and-out theft, which is immoral. Impoverished Americans are enslaved to the baubles and beads deviously handed out by the Statists, who convince them that they cannot do any better than to remain on the dole - and vote for the Statists to remain in power. Enter LBJ's so-called "War on Poverty."
The Statists don't give a shit about the poor ... or the "victims of whatever" du jour ... who are just a useful tool to enrich the Statists with other people's hard-earned money. If one truly cared about the well-being of the poor, one would not allow the inept, incompetent, out-of-touch bureaucracies of the federal government anywhere near the effort - private citizens and charitable organizations are astronomically better at dealing with the needs of the poor on a personalized basis. They deal with the poor as people, not nameless numbers, and help them get back up on their own two feet and earn their way back into a life of productivity, responsibility, and respect. And, since they are so up close and personal with the poor, they can also weed out those who are able but unwilling to work towards their own betterment.
The libtard notion of "charity" is to have the federal government throw other people's money at a "problem" defined and quantified by them that they can remain aloof from. Christ calls for us to get directly and personally involved in helping our neighbors - with money, time, sweat, blood, and tears. Libtards don't want to get their hands dirty.
Christ clearly wants all of us to get off our duffs, work hard for ourselves and others, and take responsibility for trying to make everything around us better than it was before. Christ was and is no Marxist - He expects everyone to pitch in - the haves and the have nots. Christ never shied away from calling anyone out for being unwilling to do their part.
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