| Mr Khan said: I suppose i can't blame you for trying to derail the argument in a "taxes are theft" direction, since it will effectively break this thread off in a different direction and distract from the main point. But if we have all these charities, where are they? Without letting the whole thing fall off the cliff into anecdotal evidence, if they're so much better than the government at doing these things, why aren't they doing them? Like the "free market," charity doesn't meet all of the needs it should, for various reasons that don't have to do with malevolence and have more to do with natural oversight (that and charity works better on a grass-roots scale, and can't do as good a job with the big matters of mass organization) And let's try not to make things personal, huh? |
I'm not derailing shit, I'm directly responding to your nonsense about conservatives' attitude toward the poor. Who says charities aren't doing things? When the government is spending over a trillion dollars a year on welfare and even that is apparently "not enough", that indicates that the government is really not good at doing this stuff. Charities would be hard pressed indeed to not be better than that.
LOL. "Let's not get personal now!" says the guy whose instant response to anything with which he disagrees is, "It's racist/sexist/classist/promotes rape culture!"
