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New York Leads the Nation in Charitable Giving
in response to reader comment: My B.S. detector alarm just went off

Submitted by Robert Perry, Mar 6, 2007 16:35

No study I've ever seen counts figures as high as this study, so I must assume that Mark Mahlum is correct; this study doesn't count actual (VOLUNTARY) giving, but rather the amounts taken involuntarily out of taxpayers' wallets. Nice try, but taxation doesn't count as charity.

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What? What kind of spin is this? Government consfiscation and subsequent wealth redistribution is not charity. It is the purchase... [MORE]	Mark & Linda Mahlum	Dec 10, 2006 23:06
No study I've ever seen counts figures as high as this study, so I must assume that Mark Mahlum is...	Robert Perry	Mar 6, 2007 16:35