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Nope, however, there are enough people starving already who would to make the prospect of more starving people, a real danger to our species. The human species doesn't do well when it's starving. It starts fighting itself and becoming unstable. Taxes ensure the opposite. They ensure that enough people are fed so that they don't engage in populist revolutions.
Your absurd understanding of my statement leaves much to be desired. However, that simply isn't what I'm saying. My approach is like saying that I don't object to taxes because of all the people that they provide for.
Many historians have studied that phenomenon and what they conclude simply does not support your argument. Most especially in the United States where starvation is rare and foolish given all the public and private resources to prevent it. So it is not hunger that drives welfare. Probably people on welfare include overweight kids and adults more than the general population as a whole.
". . .The "politically correct" theory is that poverty and discrimination is the cause of high crime rates. During my youth in the 1930s and 1940s, black neighborhoods were far safer than today. It would be preposterous to suggest back then there was less poverty and discrimination. . ."--Walter Williams.
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