COMPASSION: Conservative vs. Liberal

Compassion is supposed to be altruistic? It is to be voluntary. It is to be genuine. Let’s take up the debate of the poor, taxation, and the right to healthcare. It is often perceived that Liberals represent the poor, but all evidence points to the contrary. Well, let’s look at the following. Arthur C. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, published "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism. After studying that “although liberal families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227).”

Why has the Liberal chosen to give less, but vote to force the Conservative to be taxed more to support healthcare (and their other social programs)? Why do Liberals frame Conservatives as “the rich,” when we know that is a false statement? Maybe the argument should be, the IRS let’s an individual over- pay on their taxes, why not voluntarily give when no one’s looking? Why not have a voluntary section on our tax form to set aside a given account just for the uninsured? Why not have a National Referendum on healthcare? Why does the Liberal want to force others through the threat of imprisonment to pay higher taxes, when they, themselves, don’t voluntarily give as much?

Maybe Liberals are not as genuine or altruistic as they want the public to think they are. Maybe the argument is more about POWER than the gift of compassion!

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