&gt; For an example, let&#x27;s say you&#x27;d normally pay $1 million in taxes.<p>There&#x27;s the problematic assumption.  As stated in my previous post, the public universities receiving taxpayer funds aren&#x27;t paying taxes either.  So the article compares universities paying no taxes and receiving no taxpayer funds with universities paying no taxes and receiving taxpayer funds.  And then they try to skew the comparison by equating &quot;taxes we could get if we took away non-profit status&quot; with &quot;taxes we already take from taxpayers and pay out&quot;.  The amounts might both be denominated in dollars, but the payer and payee are materially different.<p>Among other things, consider that people donate and make endowments to public universities as well.  (Oddly enough, this never causes those universities to ask for less taxpayer funds.)<p>For that matter, raiding a non-profit&#x27;s coffers won&#x27;t lower everyone else&#x27;s taxes by the funds raised.<p>The difference making the comparison somewhat more &quot;disturbing&quot; is an appearance of entitlement: making the comparison implies an entitlement to take those funds, subject only to a decision to take them.