And exactly how are commercial businesses different from "charities" or other "non-profits" that are continually marketing and selling stuff at grossly inflated prices to support their exorbitant payrolls and administrative costs? I could name a few that spend 80 cents of every dollar received on fund raising, but I won't. Many charities spend over 40% of revenue on marketing and administration.

An old report from the Cancer Prevention Coalition about the American Cancer Society states that for every $1 the ACS spent on direct service, approximately $6.40 is spent on compensation and overhead. Similar reports have been published in The Wall Street Journal. I'm not singling out the ACS, I just happened to have a report in my "do not contribute" file. There are many other names in that file as well.

The bottom line is that most large charities are not much different than commercial enterprises. The only real difference is that they don't pay taxes.