Is Taxation the Same as Charity? (The Robin Hood Myth)

Sources

• Charts on poverty showing liberal perspective that the "War on Poverty" has worked. **Note what YEAR the graph starts....then look at the graphs below. (The New Yorker)

• "The War on Poverty After 50 Years" **Note the decline prior to 1964...and after. (The Heritage Foundation)

• Chart on global poverty rates. **Note the US decline prior to 1964...and after. (Vox.com)

• "The Government's Effect on Charitable Contributions" Friedman Fundamentals video

• "We're All to Blame for Government Theft" by famed economist, Walter E. Williams

• "Claiming a ‘Right’ Doesn’t Make it So" by renowned financial expert, Walter E. Williams

• "Founding Fathers would have contempt for vision of today's Americans" by that well known numbers guy, Walter E. Williams

• James Madison on government relief fund to help refugees in 1794.

• Definition of charity

• Corinthians 9:7-14 God loveth a cheerful giver; this causeth the receiver to have a "thanksgiving to God".

• Agency & Spiritual Counterfeits

• "Charity vs. Taxation – What is the Difference?" video of college kids explaining their views on tax funded "charity"

• "Charity is No Part of the Government" article

• "Where Does Your Tax Money Go" article

• To be fair and because I'm an adult who can look at opposing views, here is an argument in SUPPORT of government "charity".

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