Reply #21: we spend more on keeping help from the "unworthy" than giving help...

[grasswire]

...where it is needed. Think of the massive bureaucracies that have been established to keep unworthy people from getting help, or more than their share of help. Government bureaucracies, non-profits, churches -- all of them with MASSIVE overhead costs aimed to make the needy jump hurdles to prove their need.

Also considerable impediment is the fact that most private charities and churches now refer the needy to government programs. The face of the poor is seen less and less; charity becomes impersonal.