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>>bookof+(OP)
The free market could never accomplish something like this.

>>palmot+if
Consider what you might choose to do for the public good with the 30% of your income that is taken from you in the name of the public good.

Philanthropy is a predictable outcome of an individual having met the basic needs of Maslow’s hierarchy. Consider how many more philanthropists would be created by returning this 30% back to individual discernment.

>>bugeat+Ol
Which 30% are you talking about? Taxes? If so: From what do you build things like infrastructure?

>>harlad+po
If you've ever worked with a church you know that donation and good will is not a way to ensure anything is structurally sound. Donations always come with asterisks.

Nobody wants to make sure the roof is shingled and doesn't leak but everybody leaves money for new stained glass windows or the organ that nobody knows how to play.