NGO: The Twenty Percent Rule
Congress should place a permanent limit on non-profit organizations taking taxpayer funds.
We knew it at some level, but recent audits reveal the extent of regime abhorrence. Government growth—in money, power, and ideology—has been laundered in non-governmental organizations.
The NGO is poorly named, as far too many NGOs receive most of their funding from government agencies. The extent to which governments fund NGOs is the extent to which those entities are just GOs, only less accountable. That is, NGOs flush with government funds are just partisan extensions of state authorities—whatever the party.
To hell with that.
Remember all that was discovered during the Twitter Files investigations? Taibbi, Shellenberger, and Co. revealed the extent of the censorship-industrial complex, which is composed not only of government and private-sector nodes but also of NGO proxies wielding big erasers.
Censorship's Black Widows
Typically associated with a female figure who manipulates, seduces, or exploits, which leads to her downfall or death. This archetype can be found in various cultures and folklore, symbolizing destructive feminine power, betrayal, and death. —Susan Guner
Remember also that a Stacy Abrams-connected outfit that was to receive billions of our money by EPA drones throwing “gold bars off the Titanic.” Mercifully, incoming EPA director caught them in the act. But this is just Whack-a-Mole.
Ideally, it would be illegal for governments to grant taxpayer funds to NGOs.
But in the interests of compromise, Congress should pass a law:
No NGO may accept more than 20 percent of its annual revenue from government entities. Furthermore, no NGO may accept funding from any other NGO that receives government funding.
Sprinkle in any six-degrees-of-laundering provisions, and you will have a way to curb the growth of the NGO shadow state.
If we wanted to stop the graft, Congress would apply a similar law to for-profit corporations.
Thanks for the NGO comment. It should be part of the language of the upcoming convention of states proposed amendment limiting Congress's ability to spend and to control 'where they send our money.'
Hey Max,
This is a really interesting proposal... I don't have the ground knowledge to comment on the implications (the NGO landscape in the US is - by design! - a labyrinth). But I think you and I both know why this will not get passed. That doesn't make it unworthy of thinking about, though, nor of championing.
One small point: I think 50% would also work just as well, and as 'match funding' could be easier in terms of courting political support. It would eliminate those dreadful governmental non-governmental organisations, at least. 🙂
Stay wonderful!
Chris.