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Philanthropy is a lot less arbitrary than the vast machinery of misaligned incentives we name government. Like it or not, your tax dollars fund Guantanamo Bay, Trump's family separ…

The Gates foundation likely gets more altruistic bang for its buck than any government on the planet, and plausibly more than any other organization of any sort.

I've observed the opposite. The wealthy people I know are philanthropic. Similarly the upper middle class is more altruistic than the lower middle class, and so on down the hierarc…

False, we never stopped taxing the rich. We reduced top marginal income tax rates though, so they moved more money into income and stopped hiding as much in shell companies and inv…

Most commenters here seem to have a false impression of the distribution of taxation. "The rich pay little taxes" is disinfo. The truth is more like "the rich pay most of the taxes…