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Is it acceptable, even in 2026, to note how immoral, how deeply immoral, it is — in the richest nation on earth, the richest nation ever, and, as Thomas Piketty has taught us, the most economically unequal nation in human history, the place with the greatest gaps between rich and poor — for our government to take food from the poorest children to lavish even more wealth on the very richest among us? How ethically horrifying, how dramatically un-Christian, such a decision is? Does that even register with our political leaders?