02-20-2009, 09:27 PM
Dennis S wrote:
It all boils down to: most Republicans are selfish. They got theirs and they don't want anybody getting part of what they pay, dragging and screaming, in taxes. It doesn't matter how worthwhile the money may be spent - they are afraid that someone will cheat the system and get a fraction of a percent of the money they weren't entitled to.
" Sixteen months ago, Arthur C. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, published "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism." The surprise is that liberals are markedly less charitable than conservatives.
If many conservatives are liberals who have been mugged by reality, Brooks, a registered independent, is, as a reviewer of his book said, a social scientist who has been mugged by data. They include these findings:
-- Although liberal families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227).
-- Conservatives also donate more time and give more blood."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/article...l_giv.html
Democrats only like to give away other people's money.