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Re:Google used a tax loophole to shelter $19.2B by cryptoz on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:35PM (#16056962)
Charities are no replacement for a functioning democratic government. Charities do not build large scale infrastructure or keep populations safe or anything as powerful as a functioning government can do to lift citizens out of suffering and poverty.
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Re:Google used a tax loophole to shelter $19.2B by WalterBright on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:28PM (#16058081)
The US economy lifted scores of millions of people up from poverty into the middle class in the 1800's, long before government entitlement programs, welfare, and wars on poverty.

You can see it in the statistics on life expectancy, infant mortality, and average height.

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