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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What this thread demonstrates is the idea that charities will take up the slack if you cut government aid for those in need is a lot of hooey.

Also confirms what I've always suspected (and have read about), that the lower on the income scale you go, the more generous you find people to be (in terms of percentage of income people give away) --some billionaire mega donors excepted.

There have been recent studies showing that more money people make, the less empathy they have for others.  [/quote]

Not true, the % of giving is a U shape, with the 250K folks giving the lest -

http://nccs.urban.org/nccs/statistics/Charitable-Giving-in-America-Some-Facts-and-Figures.cfm[/quote]

What this chart says is that people making under 50k give 4% of their income to charity, and that rate isn't exceeded again until you get to people making over 10 mil.  That seems pretty clear to suggest that billionaire mega donors excepted, those who have the least to give are the most generous.

It's just like that parable of the widow's offering where Jesus says the offerings of the poor mean much more than those of the wealthy, because the poor actually sacrifice to give, while the wealthy give from their extra funds.  I'm an agnositc, but dang there's some radical stuff that Jesus was preaching, if people would actually follow it.

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