Maggie's Farm

Your comment was starting to make a good point when it went off the rails. Of course, it's interesting that the examples you cite are not the ones people are rioting over, or pundits are obsessing over. The riots and obsession are over black men who were killed in the commission of crimes. Instead of choosing examples where police went out of bounds, these protesters are seizing on any case in which a black man runs afoul of police, no matter how justified the police reaction may have been. For reasons I'll never understand, there is little or no attention paid to cases in which a black man is killed while apparently breaking no law and posing no genuine threat.

Then we see appalling attempts to draw moral equivalencies. On the one hand we have men who died because a policeman was forced to make a split-second decision to defend his life, as in the Michael Brown case, or because more or less ordinary arrest techniques can, in exceptional circumstances, cause unintended injury or death, as in the Eric Garner case. On the other hand we have a man who deliberately targeted a symbolic enemy and shoot him in the head in an act of protest over grievances against completely different men--or punks who burned down their own neighbors' businesses out of spite. If those two kinds of acts are really equivalent, get ready for moral chaos on the streets.

Does it make sense, though, that an organization that collections donations should have to treat the donations as taxable income? Why should the government get a big chunk of the donations, just because the donations are aggregated through a charitable organization?

Another approach to solve the problem would be to get rid of all corporate taxation. I think we should be taxing only at the individual level.