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infrastructure, for public schools, and for the provision of police and fire departments? These benefits provide for an improved quality of life for everyone being taxed; however, a tax to compel charity only benefits those receiving the charity. Many times people who become wealthy never stop to consider how they went about accumulating their fortune. They assume that it is unfair that they have so much while others have so little. What they never seem to realize is that most people do not becomes financially independent by receiving charitable gifts. If they were to stop and analyze this a little, they would find that they became wealthy through their talents and hard work. Perhaps, they would then encourage these virtues rather than so called "charitable gifts" that keep others in poverty.

It is easy to give away somebody else's possessions. True charity is giving of oneself. It is the giving of one's own money, talents, and time. Taking possessions by force in order to give those possessions to somebody else is not charity. If people who want compelled charity are so concerned for the poor, for victims of abuse, and for the hurting, then why are they waiting around for the government to fix these problems? Why are they not sacrificing themselves? Why do they only want the government to rob others? This is not charity. Charity is selfless, and it is not as quick and easy as a robbery.

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