I don't disagree, but I also don't think that completely getting rid of welfare, socialism etc. is realistic in the current political environment.
@Weird Tolkienish Figure Nor SHOULD we eliminate it. What we SHOULD do is require all the parasites that call themselves charities that get government grants and tax breaks to either spend 90 percent or so of the money they take in on the needy,NOT on paying themselves wages,paying for trips to Hawaii to attend seminars,not for passing it up their religious food chain,not for buying votes for politicians,etc,etc,etc.
You either open your books and PROVE the money you receive is going to the needy,or you start paying taxes on it and lose the legal right to call yourself a charity.
I can already hear the heads of various churches screaming in outrage that this would even be suggested.