Whitestrake Pelinal
Like a dream without a dreamer
There's nothing simplistic about it -- such a simple ban acknowledges the many perverse incentives involved in international 'charity', good-willed or self-serving. How such an act can easily become self-perpetuating, sometimes by drawing out a short-term crisis into something long term, or by screwing up parts of foreign countries we don't understand, or by cultivating a bureaucracy to carry out the 'charity' that itself becomes self-perpetuating. And that the relationship between a people and its government is one of government servitude of that people, and only that people.That's an overly simplistic view of government spending. Foreign Aid is a form of charity. Charity is often done for selfish reasons.
Fr'ex: the HS I went to had doing volunteer service work as a graduation requirement and most of my classmates wouldn't have done it unless they were told to.
The reasons for small government are many and involve complex relationships, while the reasons for big government are simple and have great appeal to the shortsighted and ignorant. "But we/they deserve it", "someone has to do something", etc.