I donate almost half of my paycheck to the govt and the lower half of society.....does that count?
I donate almost half of my paycheck to the govt and the lower half of society.....does that count?
She's scamming you. Lol.
I've seen her walk to her tent in January when it's -15℃, the tent is about 10 feet off the path. She cleans the area around her tent. She will survive the nuclear holocaust.
Or vote for socialist politicial parties.
Personal choice. No judgement but I'm sure you're a liberal atheist.
If you pay taxes you have.
I donate a little bit. My company started a charity to help our fellow employees and the local community when COVID started. If someone needed some minor financial assistance, it would pay out. I put in $500, as I make a lot more than our customer service people.
I hesitate to donate to the big charities, since I feel like most of it is going to admin costs. I’ve done it here and there but nothing big. I donate clothes and shoes to my wife’s extended family in the Philippines at least once per year.
I’ll give a homeless person cash here and there depending on my mood. I also pay a lot in taxes.
I wish I could do more but I’m the sole earner in a family of 4 and I have 2 college tuitions and probably 2 weddings to save up for on top of trying to save for my own retirement.
As I posted before, you can't explain empathy to someone who doesn't have it. Its like trying to explain color to a blind person.
Giving to charity is about empathy.
So, if your loans are forgiven you feel justified that you have that donation coming to you from us?
When you donate to charity, you never really know where that money actually goes. Look at BLM for example, raised 100 million plus and the money disappeared. The woman in control of the money went on a mansion buying spree though. For every charitable donation, at least more than half on average goes to "administration" fees or lines peoples pockets somehow. If you donate to a church, you're also essentially just giving the pastors free money they can spend at their own discretion and leisure. Just depends on how greedy the people in control of the money are.
There are no true socialists.
A socialist solution would give the panhandler ownership of a fair share of the means of production, and thus a guaranteed income by dividend. This has yet to work on the large scale, except maybe on paper. Centralized state power is the de facto owner.