Taxation and Charity from the Individualist Perspective: The Case Against Government Wealth Redistribution

We as humans were never intended to see the suffering of the entire world.  It's too big of a problem for us to solve.  Instead, like the well-known tale of the boy throwing the starfish back into the ocean, we are meant to see and to freely choose to help those who are suffering near us and thus the whole world is helped. Pushing off our personal responsibilities to the government only exacerbates and increases the number of the problems.

Today, like Ebenezer Scrooge from A Christmas Carol, many people turn a blind eye to the suffering occurring around them locally. They rely instead on some vague notion that they've paid their taxes and therefore solving these issues is now someone else's problem.  Oh, they will still march and protest for some popular cause related to something happening elsewhere on the planet, but that's as far as their altruism goes.  "Let the government fix it, that why we pay taxes" is their mantra.