[Originalist]

Originally Posted by Aquila

On the flip side, cutting funding for Social Security, TANF, and other programs that assist the poor, the widow, the orphan, and the stranger in our land bares a greater resemblance to Israel's refusal to tithe in the OT, and the sin it truly was.

Malachi 3:8-10 King James Version (KJV)
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Matthew 25:41-46
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Will a man rob God?

The principle of taking care of poor people is sound. But we must also look at what the Bible called "poor". There really are no "poor" people in America. I do not see how scripture mandates unconstitutional, mismanaged and unsustainable programs like the one you mentioned.