Socialist greed
Socialists are greedy. They don't like to help people in need. They claim they do, and try to get the government to look like it is helping people (which it does very badly) using other peoples money. But actual, personal, hand-in-the-wallet giving? No.
For proof I give the 2005 Generosity Index, colour coded by political party by the Pirate's Blog list of the most generous states. The bottom 5 are all socialist leaning (Democrat), the top 5 are all liberal leaning (Republican) with a quite clear spilt between the two parties.
posted by chris at 12/15/2005 09:07:00 am
3 Comments:
The richer you are, the larger amount you can register for tax allowed giving, that's all this proves.
If 40% of my income is taken in tax and I give 2% to charity, that is better for the poor than;
20% of my income going in tax and giving 10%. If low tax was good for the poor, we wouldn't have had the explosion of begging and homelessness under Thatcher.
Assume an income of £20000
40% tax leaves £12000 left to give. Giving 2% means charity ends up with £240
20% tax gives £16000 left to give. Giving 10% of this means charity ends up with £1600
1600 is more than 240. So 40% tax and 2% charity is worse (in this case six times worse) than 20% tax and 10% giving.
Exactly, anybody can be generous with other peoples money. True generosity is when you are generous with your own money, especially if you do not have much to begin with.
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