Reply To: Government programs are not tzedakah

gavra_at_work,

We see from here that perhaps (and I’m not a Posek, so will leave it open) it is worse to accept government funds in America, thereby giving the Hamon Am (and the Government) the Zechus

Assuming that having your money taken by force is what makes it count as tzedakah (and I don’t think that applies to U.S. taxes), why would non-Jewish tax dollars going towards a credit for a Jewish family with kids yield any more zchus to the taxpayer than, say, the tax dollars going towards a new warship?