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You shouldn't feel bad for taking the $10k. But you should feel a bit silly for having the "not one dime!" principle in the first place.

You and everyone you know has been "on the hook" for creating Black Hawk helicopters and F-22 Raptors and murder drones and a million other things that are of no direct benefit to yourself or your family/friends ever since you earned your first paycheck. Meanwhile over that same period the world's biggest banks have been bailed out and some of the most successful businesses (including oil and coal companies) have received trillions in tax subsidies, while billionaires have used tax loopholes to pay even less (by % of income) than yourself.

Now there's finally an opportunity for you to be the one directly benefitting from a government policy, and you're going to get all guilty about it? This is what a government is supposed to do- collect a little bit from those who are doing well to provide help to those who are suffering, because a small dose of help might be all they need to get back on their feet (and back to driving the economy forward). In other words, exactly what you requested in your opening post. So programs like this should be receiving your full support, with zero shame attached!