Glenn Beck calls for increase in charitable giving along with shrinking government. Do you agree?

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Kasz216 said:

There needs to be an increase in charitable giving even if you don't get rid of government spending in my opinion.

I wonder if you would see it though.

In general it seems to be shown that when people think welfare is primarily the roll of the government they're more likely to be content not giving to charity and saying "Oh well the government has failed those people not me."

Surely you'd see an increase from the other side of some sort... I wonder if it would be enough. Charity is a LOT more efficient so there is a chance but...  I imagine there would still be gaps in the system based on area.

Thats where large charities would allow overlap. You could cover every area as needed, because some could market better that they're able to distribute aid to the needy in the most impoverished (hint: least-funded) areas of the country.

I'd imagine that given the efficency of private charities, you could probably cut total redistributive spending by 50% overall (charity + government welfare combined) to achieve a similar level of care as we have today.