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Many Americans who are doing well, either by an accident of birth or by working hard to overcome disadvantages and bad decisions, have no problem whatsoever donating both material and time resources to charities that help those less fortunate. What they don't want is to turn that all over to the government and pay more taxes to support it. It's a fundamental difference in belief of the purpose of government. The Left believes it's the responsibility of government to care for the weak. Small government conservatives, like me, don't agree. It is not the responsibility of government. Rather, it's the responsibility of humanity.
So I give money to several charities, and did so before I started itemizing deductions. I also volunteer for events held by the Connecticut Special Olympics and will be a participant in a polar bear plunge in March to help them raise money. But I oppose government taking away my ability to choose to make charitable gifts and making it mandatory via taxation.
Tax isn't charity. It isn't something you give out of the goodness of your heart. Its the bill for all the many services you enjoy, whether you're rich, or poor. If you disagree, spend a week using literally zero government provided services, and then talk.
The idea that giving to charity is enough to improve humanity is fundamentally idiotic. Large scale issues, whether it is government funding of medical research, or food inspections, or validating drugs, simply cannot be solved by charitable giving. Nor can you be charged per service, since the ripple effects of these kinds of service mean pretty much everyone benefits.
Americans like you just aren't aware of the efficiencies and advantages they gain from even their imperfect and less than completely efficient government. You've taken so many aspects of your life for granted that you are, it appears, completely unaware that, constantly obstructed as the American welfare system is by nitwits like you, there is still a trickle of services that barely manage to maintain reasonable stability.
Next time you feel the urge to claim that your charitable giving is somehow supposed to substitute for taxes, I urge you to try that tactic with Amazon, or Walmart. Ask them if you'll be given the stuff you want from their stores in exchange for maybe giving donations to their workers.