(December 23, 2019 at 12:44 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Actually, yeah, allocating resources to citizens that need them is -precisely- the point of government.
The "financial responsibility" thing is garbage. It's a euphemism for ballooning the deficit with tax breaks and obscene spending-for-grift....and then insisting that the only way to pay our bills is to push granny off a cliff while starving the poors.
Perhaps in your country.
Here in the US the constitution provides for the GENERAL welfare - not the INDIVIDUAL welfare.
There is no constitutionally mandated standard of living.
