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Free market charity? Would this be fair?

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Tony Fernandez Posted: Sun, Jan 24 2010 9:58 AM

Here's this simple analysis I'm trying to discover. In 2009 the US government took in $2.1 trillion of our money.

GDP is $14.4 trillion.

The US gave $295 billion to charity in 2006.

I know, it's not much of an analysis, but what do you think?

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That alone is enough to put 30 million people on 10,000 dollar a year welfare soooo....

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tonyfernandez:
In 2009 the US government took in $2.1 trillion of our money.

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The US gave $295 billion to charity in 2006.

Forced charity is not charity at all.  It's extortion plain and simple.

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It wasn't forced charity that I looked up when I said that the US gave. I meant the US population gave. I don't think that included things like welfare and social security.

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tonyfernandez:

Here's this simple analysis I'm trying to discover. In 2009 the US government took in $2.1 trillion of our money.

GDP is $14.4 trillion.

The US gave $295 billion to charity in 2006.

I know, it's not much of an analysis, but what do you think?

I don't think thats any analysis at all. 'data gathering' maybe? Geeked

 

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Lol, I wanted to make it sound like I at least did some work.

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tonyfernandez:
It wasn't forced charity that I looked up when I said that the US gave. I meant the US population gave.

Thanks for the clarification.

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