Example of Charity In a Highly Taxed America
Some welfare supporters will state, albeit in different terms without forced re-distribution of wealth poverty will increase and people will "fall through the cracks". Cliches such as that and "safety net" sound great but where does everyone look? Government. Freedom is always the answer and will lead to less poverty through the division of labor and competition increasing innovation with the human nature to win and succeed.Technology such as SMS messaging and mobile phones has allowed Americans to donate 7million dollars to relief efforts in Haiti. Most of that has gone to the Red Cross. Someone told me their CEO makes $400,000 a year! But i digress. I think these signs of giving show such promise in a free market solution. Imagine if you had just 25 percent more money? Would that change a $5 donation to $30 dollars?For comparison total giving for a whole year (2009) of 4million via mobile phones has been surpassed in 36hours. This is a lot of money considering how much people are taxed as a whole. Not even considering inflation americans will pay more in taxes than they will pay for food, housing and clothing combined.People also care where their money goes. Charity's can compete for money. Obviously if you can give your money to whoever you want, bad charities will be weeded out. This is in contrast to welfare where if people game the system there is little to be done about it and no incentive to do so by government workers because it's not their money being lost. This is shown brilliantly in Prescious, a recent hollywood movie.Corporations shell out money for selfish reasons also. Improving their image to compete for customers. AT&T's image is horrible online and this won't help them either.
It is a very simple concept that applies to every decision. If it is your money individually you care where it goes. You earned it. This fact and this fact alone makes charities a million times over more efficeient than government at allocating and spending aid money. Try to imagine the results if that number was 14 million donated or 24 million donated? How many more people would be helped?T-Mobile said Thursday its current customers trying to connect with "loved ones
in Haiti during the aftermath" of the earthquake can make calls to Haiti without
being charged for international long distance calls through Jan. 31.T-Mobile customers "who may already be in Haiti will be able to roam on T-Mobile’s partner networks in Haiti (operated locally in Haiti under the names Voila and Digicel) free-of-charge through the end of the month
