The difference between raising taxes and cutting spending <i>in general</i> are enormous. Money gets shuffled around, economic activity changes, different people lose their jobs, etc. You don&#x27;t need politics or ethics to see the difference there. Yes, the government&#x27;s balance sheet has the same number at the end in both cases, but everybody else&#x27;s are massively changed.<p>When you then cut it down to only look at non-profit organizations, and their taxes, all of that goes away. The outcomes in both cases are now identical in <i>every</i> respect.<p>As far as &quot;claiming domain,&quot; and such that sounds like typical loaded-words meaningless politics to me. If the only difference between giving a non-profit a tax exemption and giving that non-profit a subsidy of the same amount is &quot;claiming domain&quot; then there is no actual difference.