Because the government has restrictions placed on it by the people that private sources of welfare do not. Want to have something to eat? Listen to us proselyti

Because the government has restrictions placed on it by the people that private sources of welfare do not. Want to have something to eat? Listen to us proselytize our religion to you for the next hour. Oh, and by the way, our religion requires you to give 10% of what you earn to us.