Other things being equal, a tax dollar is generally a better civil-society brick than a charity dollar. Good policy: make other things equal
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only if you assume the government embodies civic desires. Which it at best approximates
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About as approximately as a rich person understands needs of a poor one suffering a social cost. Hence other things equal clause
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Or are you saying that "other things" are not currently equal? But they should be?
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. the second one. Gates foundation not much better than government if you dig in. Many of the same people, instis, processes involved
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You think that the Gates Foundation would be more effective if they gave all their domestic spending to the federal government?
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This is my favorite essay by Henry George
"AN EPIDEMIC of what passes for charity is sweeping over the land..."
savingcommunities.org/docs/george.he
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