NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF points out that Conservatives are more generous with their own money than Liberals. So he spends his column in the NY Times trying to shame Liberals into become more generous with their own money.
It won't work.
Liberals are stingy with their own money for ideological reasons. This is a corollary from the Liberal belief that the answer to any problem is a government program. If there are poor people, people in need, Liberals demand that the government needs to help. And so the existence of government is a reason for not reaching into their own pockets.
But Kristoff is wrong when he says:
It won't work.
Liberals are stingy with their own money for ideological reasons. This is a corollary from the Liberal belief that the answer to any problem is a government program. If there are poor people, people in need, Liberals demand that the government needs to help. And so the existence of government is a reason for not reaching into their own pockets.
But Kristoff is wrong when he says:
Of course, given the economic pinch these days, charity isn’t on the top of anyone’s agenda. Yet the financial ability to contribute to charity, and the willingness to do so, are strikingly unrelated. Amazingly, the working poor, who have the least resources, somehow manage to be more generous as a percentage of income than the middle class.
The fact is that contributions to the poor and needy by conservatives has remained steady during this downturn. Every Salvation Army kettle I pass gets a contribution from me. My contributionto my church this year was larger, and is going to help those in need, not the building fund.
Give generously when times are bad, that's when it's most needed.
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