Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“We knew it at some level, but recent audits reveal the extent of regime abhorrence. Government growth — in money, power, and ideology — has been laundered in non-governmental organizations. The NGO is poorly named, as far too many NGOs receive most of their funding from government agencies. The extent to which governments fund NGOs is the extent to which those entities are just GOs, only less accountable. That is, NGOs flush with government funds are just partisan extensions of state authorities — whatever the party. To hell with that. … Ideally, it would be illegal for governments to grant taxpayer funds to NGOs. But in the interests of compromise, Congress should pass a law: No NGO may accept more than 20 percent of its annual revenue from government entities. Furthermore, no NGO may accept funding from any other NGO that receives government funding.” (04/22/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/ngo-the-twenty-percent-rule