Wow that's short-sighted. If the US taxed properly, there'd be no need for (intranational) charity.
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No need for charity???
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Yes. At least within a country. Charity is only necessary when the state cannot fulfill its responsibility to citizens...
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So at best it enables inadequate (and inefficient use of) taxation. At worst, it allows for personal bias to creep into social decisions.
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Obviously it's not 'bad' to give to charity. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be working towards a system where charity isn't needed.
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Define “needed”
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Difficult. Probably moving goalposts. Adam Smith had a great line about linen shirts which would be apt here...
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Ummmmm, 99% of the residents of your essential Bay Area agree with that take.
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Don’t think that’s true, but if it is I disagree with them. Wouldn’t be the first time.
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Am supportive of your ed efforts, but this is a terrible opinion. Govt & taxes are the least bad of the options. Letting billionaire-funded charities provide services is oligarch/Koch Bros policy. Use tech learnings to improve representative spending instead.
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How much of your income do you voluntarily give to the IRS each year?
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Considerably more than I would give to nearly any charity.
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I don’t believe for a second you voluntarily give extra money to the IRS each year
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Believe what you wish! We do in fact round up, but that's not the point. The point: charities in the US have top brand marketing to give their donors the warm fuzzies. Under the hood there is no magic: often incompetent delivery, poor measurement, and zero accountability.
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At funding levels that can have a long term systematic impact ($Bs), I would take a government agency over an independent charity. You should too.
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I guess that’s why the tax schools spend 300% more per student than the charity schools, yet do worse in every testing category. And not just here, as an average across the entire country?
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Yeesh, I will make my own guess that you don't know anything about what backs "stats" like that, but separately it is relatively easy to optimize for cost and test scores. What you don't get on the other side? A human being. Twitter is terrible for discussion. My best to you!
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Grant this ideology and these people no quarter.
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Accelerating wealth bifurcation by backstopping earned losses for the few via languishing wages, aspirations, opportunity, and social mobility for the many is the forge & bellows that inevitably crafts the potent, sometimes devastating, and always unpredictable cudgel of populism
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Let’s unpack that
@pt
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