Virtue doesn't scale. Hence taxes for public good stuff because otherwise only the town with a generous Moneybags would have roads or a fire service (and the town with a racist Moneybags would only have a fire service in the white quarter). It's also hard to coordinate - see disaster response.
Re:How poverty changes your mindset
by skookumchuck on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:29PM
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We're talking simply about charity. There are plenty of wealthy liberals - like Hollywood, Gates, Buffet, Silicon Valley, etc. All the people who donated to Sanders. Plenty of money to give to charity.
Re:How poverty changes your mindset
by emodendroket on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:34AM
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Resources are unevenly distributed. Like, why don't the homeless all just pool their resources and buy a house?
Re:How poverty changes your mindset
by skookumchuck on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:30PM
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Seattle votes heavily Democrat. There's only a tiny fraction of them in Seattle that are homeless.
Re:How poverty changes your mindset
by emodendroket on Monday February 26, 2018 @03:37PM
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It's an extreme illustration of a principle that holds at many different levels.
But I rarely (never?) see any rhetoric in DNC politics about party members donating of their own free will to anything other than the Democratic party.