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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (759852)12/28/2013 11:36:51 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1574945
 
> Helping the poor in America has primarily been through private charities and donations.

Since when? The entire philanthropic sector in the U.S. is $300 billion a year. Even giving the definition as wide a range as I can, only like $50-$60 billion of that goes to help the poor. Giving money to Yale or the Metropolitan Opera or your church doesn't really go to help the poor.

Medicaid alone costs well over $500 billion a year. If it were to go away, do you think that philanthropy would immediately start giving ten times as much as they do now to the poor?

-Z
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