Re:Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich li...
by dnautics on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @11:17AM
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Is it so strange? The progressive value system very much says that social services should be provided by the state and paid for by taxes. It's not hard to see how this leads to the conclusion that if they're paying taxes then their work on this planet is done. In fact, several progressives including Bernie Sanders have actively campaigned against private charities.
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Re:Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich li...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @12:27PM
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> In fact, several progressives including Bernie Sanders have actively campaigned against private charities.
It's very common for progressives and leftists to be skeptical of tax-subsidies for private charities viewing them as mechanism for redirecting resources from public priorities to the private priorities of wealthy donors.
It's less common to see them actually campaign against private charity as such, and I suspect any claim of the latter is based on the former.