Billionaire Philanthropy is a Scam

[barbaraann]

9. Charities are organizations set up to provide help and raise money for those in need.

If I had to give a simple answer it would be that we shouldn't need charities to assist with basic human needs of citizens, but we should have non-profits for such things as culture and the arts. I remember from a long time ago a food assistance organization in Canada said that their plan was to go out of business in five years because hunger and the need for food assistance should be eliminated. That stuck in my brain.

First of all, I believe that it is the job of government to prevent poverty. Norway has a poverty rate of .50% because of government policies and spending while it has a high tax burden. I think that is a good thing. The rate of poverty in our country is 12.4% and the tax burden on the wealthy is much lower. I think that is a bad thing.

The Nordic social and economic model is not perfect, but I believe it offers many good ideas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#:~:text=The%20Nordic%20model%20of%20welfare,use%20of%20expansionary%20fiscal%20policy.

I have worked with many charity organizations/programs and one of them that I started has been going for more than 30 years and raised millions of dollars in donations and cash for tens of thousands of needy people. Nothing would make me happier than to hear that the program was shutting down due to a lack of desperate families.

The best anti-poverty program ever created was Social Security. No charity program ever came close to achieving what that program has achieved.