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Charities existed, in robust force, for a long time before the government stepped in and confiscated so much money from people they didn't have much left to car
by ctdonath 13y ago
Charities existed, in robust force, for a long time before the government stepped in and confiscated so much money from people they didn't have much left to care for others as they saw fit. We had charities all over the place competing for this money, and did produce far better results than the abysmal record of the state/federal social services, until the government stepped in and made it terribly difficult to provide such charity - on the grounds of closing the inevitable gaps which government still fails to close (and never will). The competition to provide charity is being destroyed by a government regulating competitors out of existence.
I leverage an opportunity to provide food to the poor. It's amazing how many places can't take bushels of bread for distribution thereto because of governmental regulations. In requiring better donations (vanishingly small improvements at prohibitive cost), nothing gets donated and the food all too often gets trashed.
Just change tax code to allow 1-1 deduction of charitable donations from tax liability (instead of taxable income), without limit, along with relaxing burdensome regulations on charities (realizing that something done poorly is better than nothing, and requiring something better leads to nothing).
- consonants 13y agoGubbamint is keeping the hungry from these bushels of bread not fit for human consumption, why can't they see the harm they're doing? Isn't bad food better than nothing? >realizing that something done poorly is better than nothing and requiring something better leads to nothing Oh my god you actually typed it. Or we can adequately fund our social programs so that they are held to a certain standard and don't depend on the whims of the middle and upper classes.
- ctdonath 13y agoSocialism works great until you run out if other people's money. ...which we have; the pipeline just hasn't emptied out yet.
- goggles99 13y agoI would think one day even those like you would realize... Money is rarely the answer. Same with our prison and criminal justice systems, education, ETC. Spending has ramped up dramatically in these areas and yet the results are either not improved or worse... What would you consider "adequately funding" our social programs. More government(especially federal) is not the answer. Your type is always saying, just a bit more, just a bit bigger, even when things get even worse you think a bigger government can fix it. How blind you are not to see that the government often caused the problem to begin with.