Not content with sucking at the teat of the over generous taxpayer, charities want more.
Charities are calling for a new tax on bankers’ bonuses to help protect their organisations from funding cuts.
Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of Acevo, which represents 2,000 charity leaders in Britain, said such a levy could help prevent thousands of charities closing or cutting services.
He told the Times “ill-considered cuts” would “wreak havoc on communities”.
I am not a banker and I am not likely to be receiving any bonuses, so this would not affect me. However, I am horrified and appalled that anyone could suggest what amounts to theft. Charitable giving is something people do as a consequence of altruism, it is not a grab made by the government on behalf of these blood sucking leeches.
As with my decision not to put my name on the organ donor register, I am making another New Year’s resolution. I will not be giving any money to charities. Nor, for that matter, will I be volunteering any of my time. Charity no longer means what it once did – I suggest that Sir Stephen looks the word up in a dictionary sometime. In general, if the government’s big society initiative says I should do something, I will refuse out of principle. Enough already.
There are, by common acceptance, genuine charities out there – the RNLI, Help for Heroes and the British Legion. If anyone can add to this list of British charities I’d be grateful.
Our only surviving recipients are Medicins sans Frontiers (not in bed with any UN arm or government), a local hospice and the Bhopal Appeal (a properly orphaned group which gives medical and legal aid to those who lived through the Union Carbide meltdown). We have cut off, amongst others, the Red Cross, NSPCC, RSPB, RSPCA and the RNIB – rent-seekers one and all, splurging money on fancy buildings, big salaries and behaving as provisional wings of a fascist government. And I never miss an opportunity to try and stop anyone else giving to these fraudsters.
Aw, Longrider, there are some genuine charities out there, as PTB says.
Well, okay, I won’t stop giving to the likes of Cerebra… This latest grab just made me hopping mad.
Well, you made it past noon on 1st Jan. Sounds like an average New Year’s resolution, then Longrider!
Touché 😀
Simple rule – if it’s dependent on Government (ie taxpayer) handouts, it’s not a real charity. Now I just need to get the Charity Commission to recognise this…
As with my decision not to put my name on the organ donor register, I am making another New Year’s resolution
Does that mean you are also making the resolution to never accept a donated organ at some point in the future?