People don't donate to charity. Mostly. And even if they did, charities are subject to fracturing money that could be doing good many different ways when what's

People don't donate to charity. Mostly. And even if they did, charities are subject to fracturing money that could be doing good many different ways when what's really needed is a concerted push in a particular direction. Saying we need to shift the focus from government spending to charity is to say that we should defund the effort entirely. I am entirely against privatizing the public good.