Eeevil Charities
Only in the NY Times will you find an article about how charities are attracting money that could, instead, be funneled through the inefficiency of a government bureaucracy.
The $300 billion donated to charities last year cost the federal government more than $50 billion in lost tax revenue.
"Lost" tax revenue? It’s not lost if it wasn’t yours in the first place. But apparently, the Times, and reporter Stephanie Strom, thinks that’s the ‘default’ position; your money belongs to the government, except that which it loses to charities.
And as Don Surber sarcastically notes:
Why by collecting $300 billion a year from donors to provide social services, those charities are cheating the federal government out of $50 billion — money that could be used for, well, social services.
Hey, let’s try something. If you get a mail appeal letter from the Salvation Army, reply to it and let’s steal more money from the government. And it’ll hack off the NY Times, to boot!
Filed under: Doug • Economics & Taxes • Religion
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The more I read, the more convinced I am that liberals are some kind of alien race. I always try to meet people in the middle, but I have nothing to work with when it comes to articles like that.
Why the Times found it necessary to even gripe about it is amazing. Hey, use the column inches to investigate real scandals.
Meanwhile, the ClimateGate e-mails still get short shrift.