it is easy to find plenty of teachings from the prophets on being self sufficient and living within our means. if not stealing, what else would you call taking money from medicaid when it is not needed?Nanti-SARRMM wrote:But here's the difference, alcohol is strictly against the spoken word of the prophets and doctrines of the church, whereas accepting or applying for medicaid is not stealing
i don't understand what you are trying to say. as citizen, we fulfill our patriotic duty to pay taxes for a variety of reasons, including social programs to help out the impoverished. people who take advantage of those programs are using the money inappropriately. if there was some easy way to stop people from taking advantage of the system, well, then our government would be much more efficient i suppose.Nanti-SARRMM wrote:then it would be the government who is doing the stealing, not Claudio and others that receive assistance.
as i already said, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. the gospel teaches a higher law.Nanti-SARRMM wrote:medicaid is based off income and financial need rather than some beaurucrat determining the morality of receiving assistance for each applicant.