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Quote by: Scribbler1 We will always have people in need of help and as long as this society continues to exist we will have people who need help. If we completely change our country where social programs will be unnecessary that would be fine. However, I don't think many people would want to go through that change lest they have to modify their "I got mine" mentality.
I love to hear the "haves" continuously complain about social programs and advocating private charities should bear that burden. After getting to know them fairly well I get the unmistakable impression these people would be the LAST ones to give one lousy dime to a charity.
But that's not everyone of course. For example, you have Bill Gates giving dozens of millions away on an almost daily basis. But OTOH I don't recall hearing about Donald Trump coughing up anything. |
You're fired.
That was a qoute from Donald.
The government does allow for tax write offs if the rich donate to charity. No doubt Trump has a few of his favoret places to donate those tax write offs too.
As you know the needs must be massive, because with all the donations that people are making to charity we seem to have not made a big dent in the problem or poverity or what not. Perhaps we have but if we did then I would hate to see what our country would look like without welfare and charity organizations.
A lot of the failure of the welfare program is lack of organization, employee training, and just plan wasting a lot of stuff on "overhead" expenses. Like using tons of paper when they could use a computer instead (per Al Gore .... who invented Bill Gates (chuckle).
You would think we could compact all the welfare and charity groups into one big monopoly like they did the homeland security department - and then make it a privately run system with someone intelligent in command. The government would then lower taxes but still allow write off for people who donate to that centrial center of compassion. The "CCC". And any Christian chruch that does not prove they made a qualified donation would have to pay taxes like any other profit making business.
That is my idea, whatcha think?