New studies confirm that liberals give less to charity than conservatives:
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 charity, “Who Really Cares,” cites data that households headed by conservatives give 30 percent more to charity than households headed by liberals. A study by Google found an even greater disproportion: average annual contributions reported by conservatives were almost double those of liberals. . .
The upshot is that Democrats, who speak passionately about the hungry and homeless, personally fork over less money to charity than Republicans — the ones who try to cut health insurance for children.
I’ve noted this fact before, but this is interesting because the piece above was written by Nicholas Kristof, a liberal NYT columnist. (As you might guess from the final phrase in the above quote.)
In fact, it’s worse than this, because Democrats are trying the change the rules to discourage private philanthropy. So perhaps low-giving liberals are just being consistent. Perhaps they feel that all philanthropy should be controlled by the government.
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