Soup kitchens and religious-run hospitals only need to exist where there isn’t a functional tax-paid social network providing these services. The idea that the US is only comparable to third-world hellholes like Myanmar in terms of charitable giving isn’t a good thing. Places like Sweden don’t give as much to charity not because they are mean selfish people but because they can rest assured that their (admittedly high) taxes will make sure that their poor neither starve nor go without medical treatment.
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