>The nice thing about charities is that contributions are voluntary.

IOW, first one gets the money (by any means, including things which later get forbidden), then one gets the divine right to distribute it at one's whim. That's power, and it's good for business. We call that "laundering the biography".

And I'm not talking of folks who squeeze $10 to give here and there, I'm talking about charitable foundations.

>When the government confiscates one's money to redistribute it to people that the government decides are worthy is not charity - it is robbery.

When a corporation weasels money out of your pocket to redistribute it to its CEOs et al, that's business as usual.