Charity or taxation? Is there a difference between the two. For anyone who understands freedom, liberty and economics, there is a major difference. Charity is voluntary, while taxation is force. This video asks the questions: is it moral to force others to give to the cause of your choice? And is it moral for the government to force others to give to the cause of your choice?
The video is embedded below:
On a side note, charity is a lot more effective than government. Studies have proven that philanthropic organizations are less bureaucratic and administrative than government bureaucracies are.
Unfortunately, a lot of people think it is morally justified to take money from their peers to hand it out to others. They think they’re morally superior holding this view.
Consider business tax reform that replaces payroll taxes with a 4% VAT and replaces tax expenditures (credits, deductions, special rates, deferrals and exemptions) with a low 8% C corporation income tax rate. In the big picture:
– It rewards job creation in the U.S.
– Global U.S. businesses avoid the VAT on foreign sales so exports are encouraged
– The low worldwide 8% C corporation tax encourages repatriation of foreign profits
– Inversions are discouraged
Complementary individual and pass-through business tax reform could be even more exciting with a choose-your-own income tax rate between 8% and 28%. Each rate would be pared with a decreasing net wealth tax rate ranging from 2% down to zero for the top 28% income rate. So for example a taxpayer could elect an 18% income tax rate and 1% wealth tax rate. To encourage middle class success, each taxpayer would be able to save up to $500,000 (for retirement, education or health care) exempt of wealth taxes. Wealth taxes paid would offset estate (and gift taxes set at a flat 28%) so few would actually owe anything. The charitable deduction would be permitted only with charities that agree to provide some transitional jobs (at a little below private sector rates) for the unemployed. In the big picture:
– The loss of family wealth for 90% of the population would be reversed
– All negative tax distortions would be eliminated
– Government assistance programs would be allowed and targeted based on both wealth and income guidelines
Tom, Dick and Hary would be proud.
Even charities invariably create a culture of dependency and still don’t get to the root causes of disenfranchisement and marginalization of the wage worker class.
And too often too many must be reminded thr idea of liberty today scarcely relates to the intended purpose to liberty and justice for ALL. Not a few large and in charge, most have the cintext of We The People confused with College grads on juvenile credit card binges they think will never come due.
Or how ever many checks are still in my checkbook means there must still be money in my acct.somehow. Lol.
Breaking it all down relevantly to context, there is little basis of comparison between the categorically functional issues associated with charities and that of government taxes apart from the contorting verbiage Mr. Moran arrempts to employ. The function of taxes scarcely relates to that of charities. One ought be forced or mandatory for all citizens, while the other isn’t at all. The connection sought here is all but pointlessly meaningless for a host of reason I would be happy to elaborate on extensively in detail if provoked.