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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This opinion piece mirrors every other study I have read on the same topic. All of those studies show that liberals favor governmental, rather than personal, solutions to problems. Governmental solutions tend to be shotgun approaches that throw money at various problems--money raised by increasing taxes disproportionately paid by non-liberals. A good example might be the trillions spent since 1965 on our "War on Poverty": Conservatives would argue, and I tend to agree, that the main result of such misdirected largesse has been the creation of an increasingly dependent, violence-prone underclass. And, after more than forty years, the decline in poverty rates is insignificant.