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.
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:
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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.
Max Borders is senior advisor to the Advocates. He is author of The Social Singularity and other books. You can find more of his writing at Underthrow.
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