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As we’ve long known, California is a national leader in many categories. It has the highest population (at least for now) and the largest number of homeless people. It’s also the most heavily taxed state at 13.3%. California is a prominent leader in retail theft and other crimes. But what many of us probably don’t realize is that the Golden State is also a leader in another category. Californians are the biggest bunch of cheapskates in the country, at least when it comes to tipping the wait staff at bars and restaurants. Or at least that’s the implication in a...

China is the least generous country in the world, according to a worldwide survey on generosity by the Charities Aid Foundation. The 2016 CAF World Giving Index is based on a poll of 1,000 respondents from 140 countries and regions, asking them if in the last month they helped a stranger, donated money to charity or volunteered their time. China ranked 140th place in the poll, behind Palestine, Yemen, Greece and the Democratic Republic of Congo, lifestyle website Shanghaiist reports. […] Myanmar tops the index for the third year running with a score of 70 percent, followed by the United...

We are six percent or less of the world's population, yet we give almost half. We are a very small number of people, relatively speaking, and we carry the weight of a dozen countries. Secondly, we maintain a military structure that keeps the peace of the world...Who is in the Indian Ocean with the aircraft carriers, helicopters, skilled personal? No one has the infrastructure in the world, we spend almost half a trillion dollars a year on our military structure, which is essentially the fire department of the planet and it is always at the disposal of people hit in...