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To: Lane3 who wrote (8020)	12/26/2005 12:44:40 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) of 543013

Seems to me it's more enlightened to encourage those with vast fortunes to set up aggressive foundations, to be philanthropists. Has a more positive and constructive and, dare I say, enlightened ring to it, seems to me. I am not a policy wonk. Generically I am for things that do more good than harm. It just seems to me most of the foundations and philanthropies are tax dodges. They are used to funnel money to friends and family and dubious causes. I am not one to design public policy for the greater good. Intuitively I know that you can design public policy that can do a lot of good or you could implement really stupid public policy without even meaning to favor special interest of dubious nature. At this stage in the development of our civilization, by not doing anything and by letting nature take its course is unlikely to be any good. Yes, in more primitive societies, not doing anything is probably better than having stupid people implement stupid policy. I think we could be and should be better than that. It could be however, I am a bit early on this bandwagon.

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