What&#x27;s the difference between me giving you $X and me ever so generously not taking $X from your bank account?<p>Also note the phrase &quot;non-profit&quot;.  This isn&#x27;t a benefit we give to everyone; you have to have a registered non-profit that works towards some charitable cause (such as, in this case, giving people a free or low-cost education).  If you want to argue that non-profit organizations should not exist, or argue for more constraints on the definition of public benefit, feel free; the article likely didn&#x27;t because that would garner a lot less sympathy than disingenuously equating non-profits to picking the government&#x27;s pocket at the expense of taxpayers.<p>Now, that said, I <i>do</i> have a fair bit of sympathy for the idea of limiting the granting of non-profit status, as well as many tax deductions, but only in conjunction with drastically reducing taxes for <i>everyone</i>.  Non-profit status and tax deductions would matter a lot less if everyone paid an order of magnitude less in taxes across the board, and then we could eliminate the administrative overhead of tracking all of those things.