Government Welfare and Charity are completely different.

Welfare is the government illegally taking from those who produce and giving it to those who produce nothing.

The framers of our Constitution understood that there could be no power delegated to government to dispense any money or items for welfare or charity. This power was not delegated, and was not possible to be delegated, since it was outside of the scope of limited government.

“Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” ~ James Madison (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President

“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.” ~ Davy Crockett (1786-1836) American hunter, frontiersman, soldier and politician 1827, spoken on the floor of Congress concerning a proposed relief bill for the widow of a naval officer.

“I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity, ... [it] would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.” ~ Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) U.S. President In 1854, when vetoing a bill to help the mentally ill

“The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those … who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.” ~ Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) U.S. President May 3, 1854, President Pierce when vetoing a bill to help the mentally ill

“[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.” ~ William Branch Giles (1762-1830) American statesman, US Senator and Congressman from Virginia, 24th Governor of Virginia 1796, spoken on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives concerning a proposed relief measure for fire victims.

“I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.” ~ Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) 22nd & 24th US President, mayor and governor in New York state In 1887 when vetoing an appropriation to help drought-stricken counties in Texas

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Welfare is the forcible transfer of wealth by the government from those who produced the wealth to other individuals who “need” that wealth. Welfare is the forcible transfer of wealth (usually by taxes) by the government from those who produced the wealth to another individual (or group of individuals).

Where private charity is voluntary, the “paternalism” of government welfare is involuntary.

The alleged justification for welfare is altruism: sacrifice of one’s interests for others The justification for this expropriation of funds is that those who are receiving the wealth (handouts) “need” it, and those who do not voluntarily give their money have “greed” so their money must be forcibly taken from them.

At the root of the claim that the creators of wealth owe the non-creators is the ethical code of altruism — self-sacrifice of one’s own life for others (‘altru’ meaning other). In Marxist jargon, this means that wealth is plundered “from each according to his ability” and distributed “to each according to his needs.” The producer has the ability, i.e., “greed”—the welfare recipient has a need—the inalienable rights of the producer be damned.

Welfare renders the producers slaves and the “humanitarian” middle-men as their masters. Whether the thief is wearing a ski mask or is a dressed in a pinstripe suit of a congressman, does not change the nature of their actions in principle: both are looters as both are initiators of force. With one exception, the man wearing the ski mask is more honest: he is not a big enough hypocrite to tell the citizen he is robbing him of his hard-earned wealth “for his good,” or “for the good of the people.”

What of those who cannot help themselves under capitalism? Under capitalism, all government coercion and theft is prohibited and replaced with voluntary methods, i.e., private charity.

The few individuals in a capitalist society who are incapable of taking care of themselves — such as the mentally disabled, crippled, and orphans (which are a small and tiny minority in any free country) — are provided for through voluntary means, i.e., private charity.