Joe won't give up:
>I dispute the validity of your self-serving definitions.
They're not my definitions. They're the ones in general use by legal scholars and political philosophers.
>Welfare is an unearned gift from a government to a corporation or
individual;
>under this definition (the proper one), my examples fully apply.
Now it's the word "gift" that you're distorting. Allowing someone to keep a little more of his own property is not a "gift" in my book. But that's just my self-serving definition, I guess.
Dick