From Byron York's article over at NationalReview; we see that the Bidens' charitable giving leaves a little to be desired. In 1998, for instance, they raked in $215,432 but gave only $195 in charity. Move up to 2007, when he was thinking of running for President, they made $319,853, but gave only $995 to charity. The giving curve over those 10 years pretty much stayed flat. Over that time, they made $2,450,042, but gave only $3,690. That comes to 0.15% of Adjusted Gross Income. By contrast, most American families give at least 2% of their AGI to charity. The Bidens' who favor huge government give-away programs gave less than 1/10th of what most families give to charity.
You see, liberals love to give away untold amounts of your money but, they're stingy as heck with their own money. These data sum up the liberals' world view in terms of the role of government: that is, it's the government's responsibility to care for everybody in every possible way, and not the responsibility of individuals to care for themselves or each other. And by "government's responsibility" I mean taxpayer responsibility through the government. People like Joe Biden and Barack Obama believe that the government knows best how to allocate funds to the "needy". Never mind that they direct the money they took from you to those who're most likely to vote for them, and most of it is wasted on fraud, waste, and bureaucratic abuse.
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