[iammisc]

It's not that money from government is less worthy. It's that money from government came from my wallet, thus I am entitled to an opinion. If you didn't take my money, I would have no interest in sharing my opinion with how one ought to spend it.

[aisengard]

Everyone's entitled to an opinion, no matter what the situation. That's called freedom, too. What you are also entitled to is a vote, and you can feel free to vote for politicians who will enact your agenda, which seems to be holding poor people accountable.

But that doesn't really have anything to do with whether or not your attitude is actually constructive. You seem to be stuck in the 80s era of Reaganomics/welfare queens thinking, which has since proven to be incredibly ineffectual, destructive, and misery-causing.

[dlp211]

> It's that money from government came from my wallet

Did it though? Government spending != spending your wallet money. Because money is fungible, I can easily make the case that all of your tax dollars went to whatever you value in government, and that we borrowed the rest of the dollars to pay for these beneifts.

[iammisc]

Well if I contribute 0.000001% or whatever to the federal budget, then I'd say I contribute 0.000001% to whatever welfare payment anyone receives. Money may be fungible, but when you pool money and decide to spend it, everyone from whom it's pooled gets a say.

[dlp211]

But you don't. You get a vote. That is the point of representative democracy.

[iammisc]

Is my vote not the say? If I am a christian and I don't want my money going towards abortion, then I'm going to vote for candidates who support that. That anyone should argue that I should not have that say is frankly scary.

And yes, because it's money from my pocket (as I explained), if someone asked me directly, I would have opinions on how it ought to be spent.