Kurt Ullman wrote:
> In article ,
>  Rob Perkins  wrote:
> 
> 
>> What on earth would be *wrong* with a government which acts as an agent of
>> charity? 
>>
>   They are, always had been and always will continue to be singularly 
> bad at it?
> 

Governments are poor at delivering the money to the poor.
Governments are good at extracting the money.
There is no logical need for both functions to be performed by the same 
organisation.

Andrew Swallow
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