But who does a better job at redistributing money to the poor, the government or the individual? I would argue that individuals are much better at this than th

But who does a better job at redistributing money to the poor, the government or the individual? I would argue that individuals are much better at this than the federal government. Bill Gates spends an enormous amount of money on his foundations that help a lot of people. If the government had this money instead would it have been put to as good of use? If anything maybe the government can find new ways of creating even more incentives for individuals to donate to charities and other causes. I don't feel that is realistic though as the government would always rather end up getting the money and be in control than allowing the individual to use their money as they see appropriate. After all, the government is nothing but an extremely large, inept, and greedy corporation. Kind of ironic that they are penalizing GM when they are GM.