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The New THOMA$ REPORT on Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:30:54 PM
That’s a term I coined a few years ago after a reader criticized me for being “against altruism.” He was right. I’m NOT “against altruism” if it is MY decision to help someone in need. I will NOT be “forced” to do so. Apparently, Brian Schwartz feels the same way and he wrote an excellent letter to the editor of Boulder, Colorado’s “Daily Camera” on the subject. Here is an excerpt: “Would you call the police on someone who didn’t donate to a charity that you consider to be a ‘worthy cause’? If not, then you should oppose County Issue 1B in this November’s election, which would extend the so-called ‘Worthy Cause’ sales tax. This tax is immoral — regardless of how worthy the causes are. It is compulsory charity, or charity at gun-point. It is intolerant to people’s values and unfair to charities that must earn our donations. It undermines both the responsibility of donors and the accountability of non-profits that receive forced donations.” I couldn’t agree more. Would you go around your neighborhood asking your neighbors for money because “you need it?” No. But people keep electing socialists to office to do it for them. Need should NOT be a “demand” on the earnings of others. (
Brian Schwartz/Daily Camera)