Where is the proof conservatives give more to charities than liberals?

Answer 1

Conservatives claim they give more to charities because a small number of them tithe to the church.

Answer 2

It is extremely important to look at which charities the conservatives are giving to. This is also very true in general. This question is poorly worded and is way too broad to really answer in depth.

Shortly; the conservatives might possibly give more to charity, I really don't know the answer to that though, but you also have to look at so many other factors that it is impossible to determine a real concluding answer.

So I guess there is no proof.... For either side of that argument.

Answer 3

I could see that conservatives do give somewhat more than liberals do if only because they tend to be regular churchgoers more so than liberals are, and that with the minister and all the other people standing right next to you, there's a bit of pressure to drop something in the collection plate, isn't there? The question is, how much of that money goes towards helping impoverished people, and how much of it goes towards building a new youth wing?

The problem with John Stossel's report is this: he chose a wealthy community and a poor community. The poor community just happened to be more conservative, and the wealthy community just happened to be more liberal. The truth is that political orientation makes no difference: poor people are more likely to contribute to charity than wealthy people are. You hear about stories like this all the time. I live in Texas, a red state, where almost everybody goes to church somewhere, and there was a story a few years back about how all the "Secret Santa" type trees where you select a child to sponsor for Christmas and purchase him/her gifts had been cleared out at the poor malls, but the richest mall in town (which was located in a very conservative and religious area of Dallas, mind you) still had tons of unsponsored children left just a couple of days before Christmas. Of course, once the story made the news, the rest of the cards were cleared out, but it took widespread humiliation before the rich guys decided to do their fair share.

This is not to say that all wealthy people are selfish, though. It's just that when you live in a wealthy area and you don't see poverty on a daily basis, you tend to forget it's real. You have to get out of your box a little to understand what it's like not to have all those advantages.

Incidentally, I'm a liberal, and although I earn only $15,000 a year teaching at a local university (I'm not tenure track because I only have a Master's), I contribute to the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders regularly. I never claim these as deductions, however, because I don't have enough other deductions for it to matter. I also give money to people on street corners, and I always tip 20% or more to waiters. Oh yeah, and I also drop off the clothes that my children grow out of at the local Mission from time to time, but that hardly seems worth claiming.

I have friends and acquaintances on both sides of the political spectrum, and to be fair, I think all of them contribute to charity. The only ones that don't tend to lead fairly closed-off existences and are the types who generally feel that anyone who is poor has no one but themselves to blame.

Answer 4

The proof is in the pudding.

Answer 5

Look up the stories that John Stossel has done recently.

Answer 6

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/11/who_really_cares.html

read the whole thing.