When statists believe that it’s up to the government to be “charitable”, the citizenry ceases to be charitable.
When it comes to charitable giving, Americans are “off the charts” in the chart above. As a share of GDP, Americans are 13 times more charitable than the French and 16 times more generous than the Swiss.
See Dan Jones’s article inNational Review(“Americans Are Oddballs“) and the study “Gross Domestic Philanthropy: An international analysis of GDP, tax and giving” by theCharities Aid Foundation (the source of the chart above).
Via MJP