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Originally Posted by Beatle17
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This relationship is called consumption philanthropy, in which people give to a religious organization or a school from which they will derive a benefit in the form of, say, a better religious education program or a new gymnasium.” Giving to a food bank or a homeless shelter has a very different outcome than does giving to a private school.
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It all depends on whether you believe that a tv evangelist is actually helping the poor with the money that you send. Rich republicans and democrats probably give to charity fairly similarly, but I think that the poorer republicans are more easily grifted.