Government “charity.”
Who chooses your charities? Is it appropriate that government increase its budget to increase giving YOUR tax dollars to charities and other nonprofit organizations? Is it appropriate that government decide winners and losers using your tax dollars?
Or is it government overreach?
According to news reports:
- Cobb County’s Commission doled out nearly $1 million in 2014 to 23 applicants.
- Sandy Springs’ City Council allocated $50,000 to nine nonprofits in 2014.
- This week, according to Nonprofit Quarterly and the Savannah Morning News, the City of Tybee Island discussed raising the city’s contribution from $57,902 this year to more than $100,000 next year.
As James Madison once said, “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” And Grover Cleveland noted, “The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.”
~Benita Dodd
Who chooses your charities? Is it appropriate that government increase its budget to increase giving YOUR tax dollars to charities and other nonprofit organizations? Is it appropriate that government decide winners and losers using your tax dollars?
Or is it government overreach?
According to news reports:
- Cobb County’s Commission doled out nearly $1 million in 2014 to 23 applicants.
- Sandy Springs’ City Council allocated $50,000 to nine nonprofits in 2014.
- This week, according to Nonprofit Quarterly and the Savannah Morning News, the City of Tybee Island discussed raising the city’s contribution from $57,902 this year to more than $100,000 next year.
As James Madison once said, “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” And Grover Cleveland noted, “The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.”
~Benita Dodd
