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Re: Preaching to the Choir
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:57:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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...and the cute animal and children’s charities win every time.
An example.
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Not every time. But the alternative is for me to give $100 for charity to a
government, and the government takes $93 of it to sustain its own bureaucracy
and $7 gets to the people who will benefit from it. Not very efficient.
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And of that $93, $47 goes to big-corporate welfare, $45 goes to big-corporate
military (and of that $45, $44 goes to the Friends-Of-Cheney corporate group),
and $1 maintains the bureaucracy.
Dave!
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) If ONLY we could get a 1:7 ratio between bureaucracy and benefits delivered, I'd put up with the siphoning. But it's hardly ever that good. Sometimes it's 1:7 the other way. Which was the point J was making with his silly made up numbers. Once (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Not every time. But the alternative is for me to give $100 for charity to a government, and the government takes $93 of it to sustain its own bureaucracy and $7 gets to the people who will benefit from it. Not very efficient. JOHN (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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