Charity: The Government Should Just Keep Out

John Stossel at Townhall explains how private charity does the job of helping poor people much better than does the government.

When you rely on the government to help those who need it, you don't practice benevolence yourself. You don't take responsibility for deciding whom to help. Just as public assistance discourages the poor from becoming independent by rewarding them with fixed handouts, it discourages the rest of us from being benevolent.

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