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    Politics, Prosperity and Charitable Giving

    Liberals favor income redistribution and the welfare state, so they must give more willingly to charity.  That's what a professor at Syracuse University thought he would demonstrate when he began researching the subject.  When his early findings proved otherwise, he thought he must be mistaken.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Liberals favor income redistribution and the welfare state, so they must give more willingly to charity. That's what a professor at Syracuse University thought he would demonstrate when he began researching the subject. When his early findings proved otherwise, he thought he must be mistaken.

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