Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.
When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
No, money is power.
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.