Posted on 08/21/2012 5:06:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
The motto of liberals everywhere is “With my guilt and your gelt, we can do anything!”
It’s just the natural conclusion of the religion of Humanism, starting with the lie “you will be as gods, knowing good and evil”.
My understanding from discussions with liberals on this:
They paid their taxes, so they don’t need to give to charity.
They are green/eco-friendly, that helps the planet, so charity is redundant.
They got the government to increase social spending. That policy change affects thousands or millions, and is more than what one person could give. So getting the government to lock up millions of acres or fund arcane research with others money is a “multiplier effect of good” and better than raising money to research or solve problems, like the March of Dimes or St. Jude’s hospital.
Another tip off is, Libs dislike leaving a tip for the waiter.
I just tell them that doesn’t satisfy, in the least, the REQUIREMENT that they, as individuals, be charitable, and viscerally they know it.
Any righteousness they feel is false, temporal and short-lived.
thats hilarious...they only pay taxes because guys with guns will lock em up if they dont...
Id like to see the returns, and how much they refuse to take deductions to lessen the tax they pay...such as BJ clintoooon claiming donations of used undies for a *charitable* write off...
I am not sure that this is not becoming true; at least not with major non-religiously affiliated charities.
When you look at charities like the United Way the bureaucracy and overhead associated with this organization is gigantic.
The leadership of this organization hobnobs with CEOs of big business and is treated and paid as if he was one.
Charity in this country has become big business and some of the people who lead these charities are reaping the rewards of their entrepreneurship.
Perhaps these people are creative and resourceful people and should be rewarded for their efforts, but to me there is an unseemliness in someone collecting a million plus salary on the back of a charitable organization.
I have the greatest respect for the Salvation Army as an organization. The people in that organization live the lives of true believers; no luxuries just a life devoted to helping the worst off. If you throw your change in their red pot at Christmas you can depend on that money going to help the poor.
I lose around 40% of my income to taxes and fees, most of which goes to social programs I don’t want to support. If they’d stop robbing me I’d start giving to charities.
So liberals are noble because the WANT to pay the taxes that everyone is forced to pay. Yeah, I get it.
Probably 90% of the continuous givers would be right-of-center. And since there were only a handful of additional people that gave, even if they were all libs (doubtful), it still would have been 80%+ towards the repub/conservative side.
I agree with the general sentiment here – the libs don’t want to be bothered providing their own money directly, if it’s taken out in taxes they never see it so they don’t care (apparently). Let someone else do it.
As an aside, it’s not like the required amount was any huge figure – you could sign up for the campaign with as little as a $15 gift (not weekly or monthly – but for the year). I was actually shocked at how few people chose to give.
Liberals often remind me of pharisees.
The ‘look at me,’ look how much, look what I did, look at my protestations for the poor....even when they go to a soup kitchen they have to tell everyone what they are doing and ‘show off their goodness.’
Yet, red states...conservatives...give and give without all the drama.
Yesterday there was an editorial regarding paying taxes as patriotic...liberals think that way because they do see taxes as a vehical of charity...for the rich to fund.
Liberals talk like that, like paying taxes is patriotic and a duty of being a good citizen. But since most look for every-loophole they can find in practice they really mean : “Its my patriotic and civic duty to vote for higher taxes on other people”
Clearly libs do not object to Obama bragging about all the free stuff he gave voters while telling them he kept them from having to pay taxes.
One thing : Democrats to love to call Republicans hypocrites everyday, Republicans dont seem to know how to play that game. If paying taxes is so patriotic then why dont libs go after Obama for bragging about 'tax cuts'?
Connecticut ranks first among New England states - at 45.
45 - Connecticut
46 - Rhode Island
47 - Massachusetts
48 - Vermont
49 - Maine
50 - New Hampshire
They really are individualists up there.
For the same reason that Europeans are.
Why do I need to help the poor? We have a government for that. And besides they take enough of my income away in taxes that I can no longer spare it.
” Liberals talk like that, like paying taxes is patriotic and a duty of being a good citizen. But since most look for every-loophole they can find in practice they really mean “
Liberals with dough hire only the best tax lawyers, and donate little or nothing to charity. They have deep pockets, and short arms.
They are tight with a nickel in New England.
They fall back on the “fall thru the cracks” problem, observing that charities are great but don’t catch everyone, that the government - in theory - does by _compelling_ aid to all instead of hoping there’s enough volunteering. Also, most charities are inextricably tangled up with religious organizations which tolerant Liberals cannot tolerate association with, so out of respect for diversity they swing the “separation of church and state” axe against diverse views and sever any obligation they may feel. Having wielded those end-all arguments, they feel(!) vindicated; government having thus been declared the compulsory all-saving religion-free savior of the downtrodden, problem solved, they feel good about their conclusion, and anyone expressing opposition must be Satan (well, Republican) incarnate. They are unconcerned with subsequent failures of government-mandated welfare programs because there cannot, by definition, be any problems.
For them, government is the end-all solution to all problems, therefore government shall be the end-all solution to all problems; if your views diverge from the gatekeepers of diversity, the atheists declare you guilty of heresy and the defenders of all cultures must destroy your culture. The profusion of self-contradiction and cognitive dissonance is incomprehensible to them.
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