If there is one lesson I’ve learned after spending most of my life in the Upper Midwest — the Navy, a career in public service, and more tax forms than I care to remember — it’s this: Government is never more dangerous than when it believes it has a moral right to spend your money better than you can.

Nowhere is that more evident than in Minnesota’s growing habit of funneling taxpayer dollars into NGOs — non-governmental organizations — with little oversight, little accountability, and almost no transparency. This practice has created a strange new world where unelected organizations with political agendas are funded not by their supporters but by citizens who never agreed to support them in the first place.

Charity, in a free society, is supposed to come from the heart — not the tax cod

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