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To: DMaA who wrote (13992)	11/9/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

David, I actually had no idea that you do not want to contribute to public schools, public libraries, or public transport...I responded to a one-line question from you, about the constitutionality of wealth transfers. You did not make any "argument." jbe

To: DMaA who wrote (13992)	11/9/1998 1:04:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

David, on charitable giving. Your remark, to the effect that "government charity programs work to dry up charitable giving" inspired me to check out what is going on these days on the non-profit sector front. There is, incidentally, an organization that keeps track of all the developments on the charitable giving-volunteerism front (Independent Sector), and it has a very informative web site: indepsec.org Unfortunately, the comprehensive figures go up only to 1997. If we assume that not much has changed since then, it would be fair to say that charitable giving and volunteerism are alive and well. However, the over-all growth rate of charitable giving in general has declined, because the government's share has declined since 1992 (since the beginning of the Clinton Presidency). And private charitable giving has apparently not increased enough to fill the gap: Growth in government funding changed from an average annual increase of 8.4 percent between 1987 and 1992 to 2.9 percent between 1992 and 1996. While charitable contributions showed growth, this growth rate was small when compared to the decline in the growth rate of funding from government. Thus, the decreased funding by government is not being offset by an equivalent increase in charitable contributions. Independent Sector was not very sanguine about the impact of still further projected decreases in federal funding: It is clear that even a doubling of total private contributions could not replace the cumulative loss in projected government spending at both the federal and state levels through 2002. Even if contributions did double, there is no assurance from past history that these contributions would be targeted to meet new human needs. I wonder what the impact actually has been? jbe