Brickbat: Charity Ends at Home

Karin Jehle / Dreamstime.com

Five Democratic lawmakers in Rhode Island want to ban people in vehicles from stopping to give money to panhandlers. They've introduced a bill in the state legislature that would fine anyone who stops to give money $75 for a first offense, $150 for a second offense and $300 for a third.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Democrats know that if the poor become dependent on the kindness of strangers then they might not become dependent on the state.

[gaoxiaen]

They finally figured out how to win the war on poor people. By profiting from it.

[buybuydandavis]

Like the Mafia, they don't allow any competition to the services they provide.

[The Hyperbole]

Their roads, their rules. Don't like it, get your look-at-me-caring-about-poor-folk-feel-goods on some private roads.

[butt-head]

What about cigarettes?

[straffinrun]

$75 for a first offense, $150 for a second offense and $300 for a third.

Fooled again by the rice on the chessboard trick.

[Rat's instance]

Commit three offenses get one free.

[The Fusionist]

Those cruel Republicans, making charity illegal.

[Libertarian]

Ironic twist: fines will be payable at the new drive-through lane at the court house.

[AddictionMyth]

You're ok Lib - you know that?

[The Fusionist]

"It was a rude and simple society and there were no laws to punish a starving man for expressing his need for food, such as have been established in a more humanitarian age; and the lack of any organised police permitted such persons to pester the wealthy without any great danger." - G. K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

[sarcasmic]

Voluntary charity isn't charity! Is the person asking permission or obeying order? No! True charity comes at the point of a gun! If it's not force, then it's not true charity!

[juris imprudent]

This is what liberals actually believe!

[ColoradoKook]

Who are you to decide what to do with your (probably I'll-gotten) lucre?

[sarcasmic]

Sad but true. Voluntary charity isn't fair because some people contribute while others do not. While government charity is fair because everyone is forced to contribute. That makes voluntary charity bad, because anything that is unfair is bad. And government charity good because anything that is fair is good.

[AddictionMyth]

But it's for a good cause - they will use the money to subsidize 'affordable housing' for them. Two birds with one stone.

[Trigger Hippie]

You know who else doesn't want to be too charitable with people in need who haunt their community?

[UnCivilServant]

The panhandlers who are not in need?

[AlmightyJB]

Atlanta?

[Libertarian]

Ghost busters?

[American Memer]

Those icky libertarians?

[dschwar]

Reason editors?

[Trigger Hippie]

^

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

[Radioactive]

Atlanta Falcons?

[Longtobefree]

If they have money for helping those in need, it is obvious they are not paying their fair share of taxes, so they must be fined. If they are allowed to give to individuals, they might not have enough money to donate to democrats!

[Radioactive]

just don't stop, wrap your donation and attach it to a brick and toss it at the pan handlers as you slowly roll by...added benefit, more traffic at the ER when you bounce your "donation" off their forehead.

[Gadfly]

In fairness, you don't want to encourage people to step out into a busy road, so if the law is just banning people from panhandling in travel lanes then it's ok.

[ammythomas849]

I'm making $86 an hour working from home. I was shocked when my neighbor told me she was averaging $95 but I see how it works now. I feel so much freedom now that I'm my own boss. This is what I do>>

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