Yes, the government should use tax money to help those in need. However, only the exact amount of money needed to help the less fortunate should be taken from taxes; no more, and no less. The money obtained from taxation should be immediately distributed into special programs, sending the necessary amount of funds directly to those who qualify for such aid. Qualifications, for those receiving government-funded assistance, should be clearly written, strongly monitored, and closely followed. Those who are eligible for aid should only be persons who do not have the means, or physical abilities needed in order to provide the essential basics for every day life. They should also understand that the support given to them is strictly aid, and is administered in order to assist, not as a means of income. .
Quite often, many people have made the mistake of classifying the terms poor and poverty in the same category. However, there is a fine line that separates these two terms along with their categories. According to the tenth edition of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary the word poor basically means, "lacking material possessions, less than adequate". Poverty is defined as "the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions". The expression "poverty line" is defined as "a level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor". This is actually the term used to distinguish where being "poor" ends, and where the life .
of "poverty" begins. In fact, the dissimilarities between these two words are quite astounding, and the differences between being poor and living in poverty are actually quite extreme. It can mean either living in a low income-housing residency; or being so .
poverty stricken that occupying a house (or shelter) is unimaginable, and personal belongings are nonexistent. .
Since the number of underprivileged, elderly, and disabled Americans has grown drastically in the past decade, the need for direct governmental funding has become essential.
