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Americans give record $295 billion to charities in 2006
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Re: Americans give record $295 billion to charities in 2006
wtg Americans [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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Re: Americans give record $295 billion to charities in 2006
But the poor people would all starve if the government didn't steal from us and help them!
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exactly 0 of that came from me. i feel like a chode...
how does 295b compare to the gdp of other countries? post graph plz. |
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Re: Americans give record $295 billion to charities in 2006
I wonder how it compares to the portion of federal taxes not paid on defense or pork...
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Re: Americans give record $295 billion to charities in 2006
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how does 295b compare to the gdp of other countries? post graph plz. [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] He said Americans give twice as much as the next most charitable country, according to a November 2006 comparison done by the Charities Aid Foundation. In philanthropic giving as a percentage of gross domestic product, the US ranked first at 1.7 percent. No 2 Britain gave 0.73 percent, while France, with a 0.14 percent rate, trailed such countries as South Africa, Singapore, Turkey and Germany. [/ QUOTE ] |
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Re: Americans give record $295 billion to charities in 2006
giving to religious cults shouldn't be included in this calculation.
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Re: Americans give record $295 billion to charities in 2006
Here is a book that came out last year about this.
[ QUOTE ] 30 of 59 people found the following review helpful: Important read to understand what is really going on, December 5, 2006 By Gene Pope "gene" (Trout Creek, MT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) The numbers are pretty amazing. The average religious conservative gives 100 times as much as the non-religious liberal! I guess that shows who really wants to help. [/ QUOTE ] So I guess that those evil conservatives gave about $293 Billion while the party of love, caring, and inclusion ponied up about $2 Billion. Way to go conservatives. Leave it to people who don't believe in the effectiveness of government to put their money where their mouth is. I wonder if all charitable giving were outlawed and given to the strict domain of government, how our society would fair. I understand that only $.25 of every $1 going to welfare actually reaches the people it is intended for. The rest of the money is spent on expensive cars and office buildings for government bureaucrats. I think that the charitable spending is prolly much more efficient in the private charities. Coincidentally, I think this is a demonstration of AC prinicples where the private sector comes through where the government does not. |
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"So I guess that those evil conservatives gave about $293 Billion while the party of love, caring, and inclusion ponied up about $2 Billion. Way to go conservatives."
*ahem* "average RELIGIONS conservative gives 100 times as much as the NON-religious liberal!" The false conclusion to draw here isn't that liberals are stingy it's that athiests hate the poor. |
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Re: Americans give record $295 billion to charities in 2006
Yeah but your forgetting the big picture here according to law only 10 % of collected monies have to go to set charity.
I know when we were collecting money for the Red Cross at the Supermarket we only had to give them 10 %. So guess what with the exception of 2.9 billion all t he rest goes to the collectee's |
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