Opinion | Bleeding Heart Tightwads
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.
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For Liberals who live by "scarcity mentality"
they don't have faith that people can invest in their own solutions.
They believe the only way to protect all people equally is to
centralize this through govt as a "public default" institution and authority.
When it comes to giving individually, people respond to
different priorities.
To their credit, I notice when Liberal friends and activists will go out of their
way to help others in the community, even when they don't have resources themselves. The heroes after Harvey and other catastrophic flooding include
people who did animal rescues when everyone else had their hands full with other emergencies.
Everyone has their place and purpose,
talents and best ways of contributing.
Not everyone connects with a large church or a nonprofit that can do all the work it takes to serve the greater population. So the liberals I know who want everyone to have equal access to help often turn to GOVT as the central source they trust to make sure such programs will be established to serve the public equally.
There are those who believe in using the government as their
substitute "church' authority for taking care of the general welfare.
If that's their belief, I just ask that they take RESPONSIBILITY for it
and NOT impose terms of taxation on others who have different
standards and conditions on providing social services to people.
So it's fine to believe in govt duty for "promoting general welfare"
and protecting public interest including health and safety -- but
laws and reforms must follow CONSTITUTIONAL process and
respect limits and DUE PROCESS. Citizens cannot be deprived
of liberty to choose or their income/labor just because of some
PERCEIVED "compelling interest".
This is where Liberals fail to recognize other Constitutional laws
and rights protecting others EQUAL to their own beliefs.
There is nothing wrong with believing in public options through govt,
but the part Liberals don't all get is it is also UNCONSTITUTIONAL
to force others to fund their beliefs without due process of laws
and democratic representation, so everyone's freedom is protected equally.