Apr 18 2009
What did you do with your tax return?
There are many, many people out there who claim to be liberal. For liberals, it is the commitment of the community, or government, to individuals that matters. The government provides welfare, social security and medicare because they are committed to the individual, and making sure that the individual can survive.
If you are liberal, you probably care about the poor, the needy, animals, the environment and children. Furthermore, in direct opposition to the way conservatives think, you probably think the government should be involved in these issues. Sometimes people believe the government should be involved because the community and families don’t take care of these issues. And sometimes liberals simply believe the government can take care of the issues better than anyone else. When someone enters into a mortgage for a house they cannot afford and then loses the house when the mortgage payment goes up, the government should bail them out to stop more houses from being forclosed on. The government should provide a basic level of living to people so that no one has to go without.
Conservatives tend to take a different track. The power of the individual rests with the individual and the choices they make. A person who makes a bad mortgage choice should lose their home. Furthermore, bailing the person out doesn’t make them learn any sort of lesson, and they will engage in this behavior again because they know the government will bail them out. Communities should take care of the poor in their community. Families should take care of their elderly parents/grandparents and orphaned children. The government shouldn’t be involved.
Well, the truth is that the government doesn’t do a good job with the programs it runs. Local, community-based programs do a much better job with caring for the elderly, poor, hungry, children, and helping people find work. In honor of the local, community-based programs there should be a movement.
The government gives people a tax return, or tax credit. Everyone should take $20.00 of that credit/refund and give it to a local community organization that is involved in something you believe in. You cannot talk the talk of being a liberal without giving to the organizations that help your cause - walking the walk. Just like conservatives who want the government to get out of the “helping” people business need to give to organizations that do a better job than the government.
Give $20.00 to an organization in your community that engages in activities you think are beneficial. The good it will do is enormous.
