Sharia Law, Because Why Not?

[John Galt]

[John Galt]

[wormwood]

[wormwood]

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[John Galt]

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[Philly]

The nice thing about government (this is going to sound weird) is that it's already this massive collection of bureaucracies and departments and agencies whose budget is accounted for, so when money gets appropriate for something, Department X or Agency Y is responsible for administering it and its either done well or not. But, for example, when the New York State's new budget gave the city an opportunity to use funds as rental subsidies for people currently living in homeless shelters, we already have the NYC Department of Homeless Services to administer this subsidy program. If instead people just gave money to a non-profit with the goal of helping pay rent for people trying to get out of homeless shelters, youd have office rent, employee salaries, etc eating away at every donation to help the homeless and instead going to operating costs. The government behemoth is already here, for better or worse, so let them administer these things as they already have the infrastructure in place.

[John Galt]

are you high?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/192070449/192 ... -2013FINAL

plus your suggestion on how it "saves money" is just pushing money around. the only way you could say that more money goes towards those in need is if there is both charity and government covering gaps. deductions encourage charity, and, as noted, are as little as 20% of the value. surely 80 cents on the dollar doesn't need to be paid for overhead in a competently managed charity that isn't intent on scamming people (there are obviously some of those, but the government wastes far far more and has far more rent seekers)