Professor: Forced Charity Isn’t Charity — Even For Special Olympics – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Professor: Forced Charity Isn’t Charity — Even For Special Olympics – Michigan Capitol Confidential:

• Hillsdale’s Gary Wolfram says it’s unjust for government to redistribute income from regular people to charities

Forced charity is not charity, even when it’s done by the federal government. 
That’s the view of a Hillsdale College economics professor weighing in on a Trump administration decision (since rescinded) to cut federal payments to the nonprofit governing body of Special Olympics.
...Wolfram added: “I suspect that few Americans would recognize that taking from some folks through taxes to give to the Special Olympics is not charity.
Nor has our public school system taught people about how charity fulfilled the needs of the indigent prior to the New Deal and the Great Society.”...
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