&gt; There is some good, but there is a case that non-profits such as the Red Cross, churches, food banks, are more accountable and do more good.<p>There isn&#x27;t any such case, if approached realistically.  Government agencies spend trillions of dollars each year on helping the poor, the old, and the disabled in various ways.  They do so in ways that are fantastically accountable (compared to the private sector), including but not limited to the fact that basically any document about anything written by anyone working at these agencies can be requested by a member of the public and the government must give them a copy.  The executives working at government agencies are paid frugally, their books are audited regularly, and they are subject to dismissal for even minor transgressions.<p>Total charitable giving in the U.S. is an order of magnitude lower (even assuming that every cent was spent on something good, which is far from the truth), their accountability consists of (at most) a mandatory report every year and nothing else (often not even that), and their executives are now hitting 7-figure salaries.<p>It&#x27;s not even close.