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tompe - no, the original post was not about foreign aid. That was your interpolation, presumably arising from your "priors" as the economists call them.
You say if you wish to use terms you have to understand them. Your use of the term "egoisim," though is irrelevant, unless you can distinguish "egoism" that leads to selfish actions from "egoism" that leads to virtuous actions such as donating to charity. You can use any term you want to smear the motivations of those who do good; the point is that private donation to charity is virtuous in a way that paying taxes is not.
Your comments about government-run welfare systems being superior opens such a huge topic that it's not worth discussing in detail. Suffice it to say that a lot of people disagree that government welfare is a good idea; and in fact it was partially dismantled in the United States about fifteen years ago because the results were so disastrous. Many would argue that Europe has become stagnant and lost its leadership, and is in decline, as a result of its welfare state policies.
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