Its pretty infuriating to know that the State (a) by directly taking ~30% of all productive peoples income, and (b) in concert with constant money printing has effectively brought an end to most meaningful private charity.

The average person doesn't has the financial resources to give anymore. They're already effectively giving ~50% away via direct & indirect taxes + inflation.

To make matters worse, the money stolen was simply wasted on a grand scale - not even helping the people the claimed all this was for....

You can see the results on the streets of any major city. When you see the drugged out zombies living on the street you are physically seeing this result (ie. a hollowed out private charity capacity stripped bare by a kleptocracy)