Conservatives seem to be more generous than liberals:
Syracuse University professor Arthur C. Brooks is about to become the darling of the religious right in America — and it’s making him nervous.
The child of academics, raised in a liberal household and educated in the liberal arts, Brooks has written a book that concludes religious conservatives donate far more money than secular liberals to all sorts of charitable activities, irrespective of income.
In the book, he cites extensive data analysis to demonstrate that values advocated by conservatives — from church attendance and two-parent families to the Protestant work ethic and a distaste for government-funded social services — make conservatives more generous than liberals.
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When it comes to helping the needy, Brooks writes: “For too long, liberals have been claiming they are the most virtuous members of American society. Although they usually give less to charity, they have nevertheless lambasted conservatives for their callousness in the face of social injustice.”For the record, Brooks, 42, has been registered in the past as a Democrat, then a Republican, but now lists himself as independent, explaining, “I have no comfortable political home.”
The political left accuses Dutch conservatives of the exact same thing. They simply refuse to understand that conservatives are not greedy, but that conservatives simply believe that the government should not take care of certain things: private charities should. As a result, conservatives are glad to charities. We simply believe that we should not be forced to give. We want to decide who we want to help, instead of the government deciding it for us.
The government is not your father, not your mother, or your wife. It should not take care of you.
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