{"id":2657,"date":"2009-12-07T13:08:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2009-12-07T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:08:54","slug":"eeevil-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2657","title":{"rendered":"Eeevil Charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/us\/06charity.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">government bureaucracy<\/a>.&#160; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The $300 billion donated to charities last year cost the federal government more than $50 billion in lost tax revenue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Lost&quot; tax revenue?&#160; It&#8217;s not lost if it wasn&#8217;t yours in the first place.&#160; But apparently, the Times, and reporter Stephanie Strom, thinks that&#8217;s the &#8216;default&#8217; position; your money belongs to the government, except that which it loses to charities.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/archives\/5407\">as Don Surber sarcastically notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why by collecting $300 billion a year from donors to provide social services, those charities are cheating the federal government out of $50 billion \u2014 money that could be used for, well, social services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, let&#8217;s try something.&#160; If you get a mail appeal letter from the Salvation Army, reply to it and let&#8217;s steal more money from the government.&#160; And it&#8217;ll hack off the NY Times, to boot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&#160; The $300 billion donated to charities last year cost the federal government more than $50 billion in lost tax revenue. &quot;Lost&quot; tax revenue?&#160; It&#8217;s not lost if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}