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ModeratingInfluence t1_j6i54km wrote

Reply to comment by donttouchthirdrail in Philadelphia spends money on anti-violence efforts. It must invest in making sure they work. | Editorial by User_Name13

If governments didn't provide grants, you'd have a massive, massive expansion of the state and far less policy and operating flexibility. We need to think about where government itself should be a service provider, and where the government should simply fund a service (a difficult line to draw), but it's not feasible for the government to never hire or pay non profits or other service providers.

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donttouchthirdrail t1_j6j4bem wrote

We need a massive, massive expansion of the state. These grants have lead to the decline of the government’s ability to provide social services, while being forced to shell more and more non-functional non-profits to provide a shadow of what they should be doing.

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