Re: Charity
Direct versus Distant Charity
Another big complaint about welfare, etc, is that your taxes pay for someone else's welfare on the other side of the continent while people are still hungry in your hometown. Why shouldn't you get more choice what charity you pay for?
I agree to an extent. Large government is blind to small problems, local government is too stretched, and the pioneering spirit of our grandfathers doesn't go far in a world where wood is finite. We're in a situation none of our governments were designed to cope with. So direct charity mostly comes down to our personal money.
And you can get a choice, sometimes. Charitable deductions, et cetera. These have a stigma - "he gave nothing, he wrote it all off". But you can also consider it taking control of where your taxes get spent.
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