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dovrosenbaum
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Seems like you didn’t read what I wrote.

I’m modeh that you need something in place for the disabled and the incapacitated, no doubt.

But there are scores of people on the dole who are bilking taxpayers. I bust my hump and pay taxes. I don’t rely on others.

Since when is being reliant on others Jewish? The Rambam says that self-sufficiency is the highest madreiga of tzedaka. We say in bentching that we shouldn’t come to rely on anyone else. And the gemara in Sanhedrin, chof vav, says that a moocher by the goyim is an ochel davar acher.