> What is more civil than banding together to take some of the variance out of life? Letting people decide how to spend their own money. Private charity is "ba

> What is more civil than banding together to take some of the variance out of life? Letting people decide how to spend their own money. Private charity is "banding together to take some of the variance out of life". Like all of the government's authority, taxation flows from the end of a gun. You can be imprisoned and fined if you don't pay what you owe. > What do you think the gov't does with it, burn it? 5 of the 6 startups I worked for wouldn't have happened without government assistance Government investment in certain sectors can be good, such as for fundamental sciences. But in general, private investment does better with the same amount of money. Even when government programs are well designed at their birth, the world around them changes faster than politics and bureaucracy can keep up with.