Legitimate charities serve a public good and in many cases deliver services which would otherwise need to be provided by government. The charities reduce government spending and save more money than they “cost” in unrealized revenue.
Are you one of those who think that government is entitled to 100% certain portion of assets and income and that any adjustiment is a “tax expenditure?”
If so better get under the bedsheets with William Byrd.
Nope. I’m one who believes that the government has absolutely no business delivering “charity”.
Governments do force, governments do fear, governments do intimidation, governments do creating dependence, governments do NOT do kindness, self sufficiency or freedom.
These days, rather than donating to a charity that has low overhead and provides a hand up, and has a high success rate, we “donate” at the point of a gun, enforced by the full might of the IRS and federal government, to programs that suck down vast amounts of money, most of which ‘gets lost’ in a vast bureaucracy.
That’s bad enough.
Worse is no federal welfare program has ever been able to report that the number of people dependent on it has gone down.
The war on poverty is over. Government sponsored generational poverty won.
Taxpayers lost, but not as badly as the people who could have been successes in their lives.
Change my mind.