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I concur with tax being used for stuff we don't like, as long as a taxpayer has some voice in it, via voting I guess?
That's the theory. I'm not especially keen on the outcome of recent elections but I still think it is a better system than people directly choosing where their money goes. For example if prisons (5.6 billion last year apparently) had to be funded by raising money from direct donations I think they would have a bit of a crisis.
(I happen to think we use prison too much and there are better ways to deal with offenders but that is a different issue to adequate funding of prisons)
jellybaby-
Ah no, not meant like we decide where money goes, more in terms we decide on who decide on where money goes :) by way of elections. If direct decisions were made we would have chaos to say the least and yes, places like prisons would be first to have massive cuts.
I happen to agree on over-usage of prison instead of ploughing money to prevent people going that way in the first place. It would cost much less too.. . in the long run
Foreigner65
I concur with tax being used for stuff we don't like, as long as a taxpayer has some voice in it, via voting I guess? Kids and animals create nice ads, but they are not on the top of the UK charities for donations (2016) When in NY working for MoMa in volunteer dept I had access to what was donated to the museum and majority was via corporate and estate donation, not necessary hard $$ though, could be art itself.
1 Cancer Research UK £463m
2 British Heart Foundation £278m
3 Sightsavers International £270.5m
4 Macmillan Cancer Support £233.7m
5 Oxfam £211.3m
6 RNLI £182m
7 Salvation Army £141.4m
8 British Red Cross £135.4m
9 RSPCA £121.4m
10 Save the Children £119.6m