Soup kitchens are on one end of the spectrum. You're right, there were people there who kept coming back for loaves of bread and more bananas, and more punch an

Soup kitchens are on one end of the spectrum. You're right, there were people there who kept coming back for loaves of bread and more bananas, and more punch and lemonade, and we just gave it to them. They just had to stand in line again. And I don't begrudge giving more bread away, that is its purpose, and I hope it finds its way into the mouths of those who need it. If people will abuse that system, they'll abuse them all, and I think the cost of preventing welfare abuse is worth it. In welfare-state Britain of the 70's, they had multiple generations on public assistance and in public housing who were proud, as a culture, of their unproductivity, which led to the backlash that brought Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives into power. Bottomline: if you want to ensure the deserving get your tax dollars consistently over time, you must guard against fraud, abuse, and overindulgence, or the public backlash may deprive even the deserving.