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  • Conservatives love the concept that private charities should be the ones who provide, “hand outs” (e.g. free food) and things like health care to those who can’t afford it. Except they always conveniently neglect the fact that all the charities in the world combined are but a fraction of a percent of government spending on similar things.

    Furthermore, charities cannot hope to match the efficiency of governments providing the same services. Even the most inefficient government agencies have overhead far lower than the best-run charities.

    Governments don’t have to solicit for donations. They aren’t beholden to the market or bad economic times. They can pool bureaucratic resources across multiple programs and take advantage of economies of scale that the biggest charities could only dream of.

    The truth is that if you actually want to help the most desperate people of the world, government programs are the most efficient and effective way to do so.