Most pagans have a hard enough time providing for themselves and their families, much less being able to volunteer time to help anybody else. So yeah, I could see how they'd like the government to step in. It's not the solution I'd choose, but I can see why they think that way.
Someday I'll start a program to teach pagans how to be rich.
Indrid Cold
Wiccan since 1987
The people of Mississippi rank 50th on average adjusted gross income (income) but 6th in average itemized charitable deductions (giving)...
The people of Arkansas rank 47th on income but 5th in giving...
The people of South Dakota rank 45th on income but 8th in giving...
And so on...
What do they know that pagans don't?
http://www.catalogueforphilanthropy.org/cfp/db/generosity.php?year=2003 Some may suggest this survey is biased. It may be---but not in the way you think. From elsewhere in this website: "The Generosity Index™ (GI) was conceived in 1997 as a concise way to summarize Massachusetts' and New England's greatest problem in philanthropy: that we have the nation's largest gap between our ranks in income and our ranks in charitable giving."
In other words, the generosity index was invented by people from the very states that are the least charitable, for the express purpose of highlighting that fact!