What if I told you just because people use government services doesn't mean they are leaning on the government.

What if I told you 50% of working Americans make 30k or less. Source: https://www.alternet.org/economy/half-america-or-damn-near-close-living-poverty

What if I told you 75% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck-to-paycheck.html

What if I told you government spending on essential benefits saves money compared to their free market counterpart. Source: http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2011/09/20/medicare-is-more-efficient-than-private-insurance/

I know this is a hard thing to understand; but the government isn't structured to remove self reliance. It uses money from the mass to do a collective good. If everything was created via the private system nothing would be done. Roads wouldn't be built because you couldn't convince everyone to pay for it without taxes. Charter schools do less than or equal to the public schools but they take money away from those very same schools. And I know you're going to say something like, "Don't have kids if you can't afford to send them to a good school!" Well on the surface you're right, but that attitude doesn't take into account the children. It's like you want to punish the parents by destroying their children's lives. If you create that mentality you are dooming a whole generation to poverty. Yes a few will make it out but the majority will be left for nothing more than your unwillingness to understand the purpose of government.