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RE: Why are liberals stingy when it comes to personal c... - 11/20/2006 1:58:31 AM

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Z. Edited to remove redundant post.

OOPS! Duh - I hit Quote instead of Edit. Sorry people!

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RE: Why are liberals stingy when it comes to personal c... - 11/20/2006 3:42:00 AM

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Right, liberals are just a few shades away from Pol Pot. Do you expect anyone to take you seriously?

Next I expect you to show us a PEW poll showing that more conservatives than liberals are going to Heaven.

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Hi Mnottertail. Did you see Pol Pot on the Documentary Channel this week? Another leftist showing his "compassion" for the children.

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RE: Why are liberals stingy when it comes to personal c... - 11/20/2006 6:33:56 AM

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The middle class give more than the rich percentage wise of income. The poor and middle class are not likely to make a note of every donation for tax purposes. I give money to almost every cause they ask me to at the supermarket, from the homeless, to breast cancer, to veterans groups. I put money in the red kettle every christmas, and I never talk about what I give usually, and if someone called me I would probably not even think of these contributions to be honest.

I think that perhaps liberals give more than this research center states. I am also going to look into who funds the pew research think tank that claims to be nonpartisan. I think these surveys are garbage

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RE: Why are liberals stingy when it comes to personal c... - 11/20/2006 6:40:27 AM

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Many people give from the heart and don't take tax deductions for it. I doubt you'll find their statistics among the herd though. I don't 'give' anything to 'get' something (like a tax deduction) in return and I know many who feel the same way so I take the whole thing with a hefty dose of salt.

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I would say ditto to this if I could stomach "ditto", so I will just say I agree, many people just do not ask for a pat of the back for their giving.

Or that their son gets into Yale or Harvard

Or a wing of a hospital named after them

I am going to be donating 500 dollars in my son's name to a scholarship in the name of a friend of his that passed away, I will not be getting any credit at all for it tax wise, and I do not want credit for it.

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RE: Why are liberals stingy when it comes to personal c... - 11/20/2006 10:18:36 PM

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I think it's absolutely hilarious how some of the posters are all of a sudden "suspicious" of PEW ... when PEW had crap all to do with this thread.

mnottertail gave an explanation of why he mentioned PEW - it was because of a preception of faulty reasoning on the part of the OP, and I could see that, so I said nothing else after he explained his position.

The rest of you .... are being a bit defensive, and looking for a bogie man, or something. You are manufacturing a straw man to attack.

Funny as hell.

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RE: Why are liberals stingy when it comes to personal c... - 11/20/2006 10:27:10 PM

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I would say ditto to this if I could stomach "ditto", so I will just say I agree, many people just do not ask for a pat of the back for their giving.

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I am going to be donating 500 dollars in my son's name to a scholarship in the name of a friend of his that passed away, I will not be getting any credit at all for it tax wise, and I do not want credit for it.

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I give money to almost every cause they ask me to at the supermarket, from the homeless, to breast cancer, to veterans groups. I put money in the red kettle every christmas, and I never talk about what I give usually ...

"many people just do not ask for a pat of the back for their giving"

"I do not want credit for it"

"I never talk about what I give usually"

You just did ... twice ... in a row.