Michael Lissack The solution to non-profits and charities is similar -- make them give back the money we give them in the form of services. Establish time limits for the dissolution of all of their funds. Do not allow them to develop large and growing endowments free from taxation. If they want to turn them- selves into an investment company -- fine, but you and I don’t need to pay for the concept or its associated perks. To a certain degree, we have forgotten how to think. Doesn’t this show in our failure to bring these issues into the political arena? There is a di- rect connection between suburban sprawl and the spiraling cost of govern- ment, and most Americans don’t see it yet, including many in government. Likewise, there is a connection between disregard for the public realm, for public life in general, and the breakdown of public safety. These issues will not enter the public discourse until something of a paradigm shift occurs in American society. Enough people move to one side of a raft and suddenly the whole thing flips over.
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