Reply To: Government programs are not tzedakah

zahavasdad,

is this against the law or against the Halacha?

Certainly not.

If they did not lie to get these things , then its not against the law or Halacha.

Certainly so.

Does it pass the “smell test”

There you go again with your crazy chumros! If it’s legal, it’s legal. This insistence on smell tests that are not part of the law is what causes people to go off the derech and become criminals. What’s next, will you require men to spray paint their heads white before they present their Medicare ID at the doctor’s office or deposit their Social Security checks?