I'm sorry but I think that taxes should be spent by the country in order to provide its society with the chance to gamble and win (not to compensate the unlucky ones). Charity is the way through which the lucky ones compensate the unlucky ones.

The U.S. has many opportunities. If you take advantage of those opportunities, you can better your odds, gamble and get lucky. I gave 2 years of my life to the U.S. Army which had a program that paid for 6 years of college. That Army program was the opportunity that increased my odds. Going to college was the gamble. My salary is the lucky part, except I call it hard work.

I also like to give to charities of my choice rather than have the government take that choice away from me in the form of taxes.