Redeem yourselves, liberals, and be more charitable
This holiday season is a time to examine who's been naughty and who's been nice, but I'm unhappy with my findings. The problem is this: We liberals are personally stingy.
Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates.
Arthur Brooks, the author of a book on donors to ...
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If the Republican party is the party of the white and wealthy and there is a large proportion of the progressives who are poor and minorities, why would one not expect conservatives to have a lot more money and a larger percentage of their income available for charity? For example, the current Forbes article claims the poor give a higher percentage of their income than the rich. And Kristof does not separate out the super-rich here, which could be distorting the data.