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Old 07-25-2014, 11:25 AM   #18
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Is the issue "preventing poverty" as a charitable cause, or people potentially fraudulently exploiting things (e.g. such as your example)? There is a key difference, I think.
If "preventing poverty" is a legitimate charitable purpose, then there's nothing fraudulent about the "charity" in my example.

The point is, "alleviating poverty" is a legitimate charitable purpose. "Preventing poverty" can be construed far too broadly and would accomodate things which are certainly not charitable. I would speculate that in most cases, any real charity that said it was "preventing poverty" could be easily reconstrued as a charity "alleviating poverty" without changing what they do.
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