thanks for your reply!

Equality in opportunity (freedom), and not equality in outcome (socialism).

Helping people is a perspective - I am all for 'teaching a man to fish, so he can live forever' - free markets. Jobs. Improvement.

Is infinitely better than giving a man a fish for day, so he can eat. (taxation and transferring wealth for free money, to others)

Is it okay to force people to give money to others? Forcing is never okay.

Taxation - with the threat of asset forfeiture or imprisonment - for refusal to pay = that is force.

Thanks for taking the time to read !