[dead]

Is there to be no arena free of government's tentacles?

Get the government out of charity work. They just muck it up.

[Redbob]

I'm with you: Remember "Great Lie No. 3:"
"I'm from the Government and I'm here to help you!"

This just sounds like the sort of 'feelgood' cr*p that Slick Willie would have done if he'd thought of it; I thought we were past all that.

[Jefferson Adams]

Is there to be no arena free of government's tentacles?

In a word: no.

[Arleigh]

Get the government out of charity work.

It's not "charity" if the government makes you do it. The whole point of "charity" is that you're doing it out of love and goodwill. Not because someone made you do it. Or paid you to do it.

Kinda like the difference between "making love" and "f---ing."