There is no human transaction wanna-be despots do not want to control. They not only get to skim off the top, but get the obeisance they crave.
If the government hands out benefits', the Government controls who gets them.
If private charities hand out aid to people, the Government can be undermined.
Whole groups of people can be excluded if the Government controls all.
Note, there is NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORIZATION for the Government to serve as a charity. NONE.
In a Communist system private charity is illegal because it is “demeaning” to the recipients and because it as a slap at the State and its ability to maintain Utopia where there is no Want.
During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a prime example of the difference between how the government and a non-profit operates was obvious. A convoy of Red Cross trucks sat waiting to help the citizens at the Superdome, while Michael Brown, the then-FEMA director, sought authorization from the government of Louisiana.
This is on the heads of the Americans who just sat there like lumps when it became obvious that officialdom was dithering. Government exists to serve US. WE do exist to serve government.
One might conclude, upon reading the left-leaning press, that a tax-benefited gift to charity is a nefarious scheme.
charity begins at home
the communists hate The Home
the Church had always been the Home of Charity in this Nation before gubment’s financial burden’s removed much of the money the American Home gave to Charity ...
Obie wants to FINISH that process
This article raises some good points, but I don’t think this is a battle worth fighting. Under the U.S. tax code, many “charities” have become nothing more than government-approved rackets. Even though they don’t operate to turn a profit, they pay enormous salaries to directors (many of them retired politicians) and administrative staff.
The writer misleads his readers by using the term liberal instead of calling them what they really are, fascist/socialists.