No, while I completely support charitable giving and understand the fact that there is a lot of good out of it, I also understand that it's not predictable and can't do things welfare programs have. [quote]it's a myth that the occasional deluded libertarian likes to spew because it's a comfortable lie that reassures their ideology, but it would simply not happen. [/quote] It's users like this that make B.net liberals look bad. No one denies the importance of taxes, but if you're still helping your community by donating to charity with an equal or greater amount of money you shouldn't have more money taken out to help those you already helped. That's what Libertarians mean by charitable giving replacing your taxes, only if you give an equal or greater amount than what your tax money would have gone to those programs.