The pressure that only exists in the heads of people who hate Christians?
Where have I ever expressed any thought that would leave you with that impression?
Links. Now. Or admit you're full of shit.
You will, however, do neither, because you have no integrity.
I pay damn good money for all of that. The government doesn't provide any of it for free.
What a dumbass.
Yay you. You CHOSE to live there. I choose to live where I live, and I accept the added expenses.
Links. Now.
How much mortgage interest do you think I pay on $120K at 2.85%?
It's not even enough to make it worth itemizing my return.
Kennedy would be kicked out of the Democratic Party today.
And his quote was “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country."
Country.
Not government. That's how retarded you leftists are. You see the only true generosity is making the government take money from people you don't like and giving it to people you believe are worth. You don't even feel like you have to give anything yourselves. Look at you...greedily and selfishly maintaining a well and septic tank, refusing to subsidize clean water and treated sewage for your neighbors.
Kennedy wanted people to give of their time and their money, however they saw fit -- local charities, churches, community services.
You believe people should give bureaucrats money. But bureaucrats
waste money.
Conservatives are more generous with their money, too.
Heavy vs. Light Charitable Giving by Party Registration
If, however, you zero in on giving that is heavier or lighter than the middle range (the bars pictured here), you find that the parties differ a lot. Democrats and Independents both had many zero-to-very-light givers (less than $100 for the year), and modest numbers of heavier givers. Republicans, in comparison, had comparatively few skinflints, and numerous serious donors—31 percent sharing at least $1,000 with charity, versus 17 percent among Democrats, and 20 percent among Independents.
Income and Giving by Ideology
As individual donors, conservatives are hearty givers—as made clear in this graph, the one previous, and many other data sets.
Generosity of States
For the analysis graphed here, the
Chronicle of Philanthropy analyzed official IRS data on income and giving, right down to the county level. The results showed that rural states, and specifically the Bible Belt and Mormon West, give more of themselves for charity. Other ways of measuring, carried out by different groups using alternate statistical sources, have shown essentially the same pattern. Though it comes as a surprise to some observers, it is not Americans in the high-income, urban, liberal states like Massachusetts or California who are our most generous citizens. Rather it is residents of middle-American, conservative, moderate-income, religiously active regions who step up the most.
Several observers have pointed out the political twist to this reality. When it reported its findings, the
Chronicle of Philanthropy noted that the states that rank highest in charitable giving all voted Republican in the 2012 Presidential election, while all but a couple of the least generous states voted for the Democrat (that’s what the color coding to the left reflects). Economist Arthur Brooks, author of the detailed charity analysis
Who Really Cares, likewise states that “the electoral map and the charity map are remarkably similar.” He notes “there is a persistent sterotype about charitable giving in politically progressive regions of America: while people on the political right may be hardworking and family-oriented, they tend not to be very charitable toward the less fortunate,” while, “those on the political left care about vulnerable members of society, and are thus the charitable ones…. This stereotype is wrong.”
Brooks points out that these differences go beyond just what households donate in money. He cites studies showing that conservatives are more likely to do things like donate blood, and to volunteer. Much of this difference he credits to the comparative religiosity of conservatives. The fact that liberals call for government to help others while conservatives feel called to help directly also seems to factor into differences in behavior.
Generosity of Cities
A pattern similar to what the previous graph showed for states is also clearly visible in this data on giving levels in America’s 50 biggest cities. It is residents of our Mormon and southern Bible Belt metro areas who are our most generous citizens. Meanwhile, many of our very wealthiest urban areas—like San Francisco and Boston—rank low on generosity.
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So, it looks like everything you "know" about the generosity of conservatives is bullshit -- but you like the taste of bullshit, so you believe it without question.
You are not a smart man. You are not a knowledgeable man.
You are a dumbass.
Reminder that it's not Republicans who want "free" shit from the government that someone else has to pay for.
If you had any self-awareness at all, you'd respond to this post with nothing more than "You're right, Dave" and never come back to this thread again.
But you won't. Guaranteed. You'll just get huffy and blustery that your bullshit was proven wrong. That, too, is guaranteed.
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