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Originally Posted by Ak Mike
tompe - with respect, I still think you do not quite understand what msmith was saying about charitable giving. If you were looking to government foreign aid plus private giving to foreign causes, that ignores most private charity, which is given to unfortunates closer to home.
I don't think that government aid reflects individual virtue. Charitable donors are taking their own money, that could be spent on themselves, and giving it to others. Foreign aid is merely an allocation of tax revenues as to which the individuals in the donor country have no discretion to pay or not pay.
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And the voters have decide how much tax to pay and how much to give in foreign aid.
I am pretty sure that donations in the US does not reflect individual virtue. I think they are done for mostly egoistical reasons.