How Smart is Your State?

That doesn't surprise me one bit. Liberals are always tight with their own money. It's everybody else's they love to spend. Bill Clinton wrote off his dirty underwear on his IRS taxes, for crying out loud.

 

OK, first of all, that is NOT NOT NOT what the survey said. The survey is talking about percentages, not raw dollars.

Second, the study explicitly says it only looked at people who itemize their deductions. So right there, you're talking about a subset of each state's population.

Third, I wonder if the difference is that in Massachusetts, people who itemize tend not to go to church, while in Mississippi they do. To me, your basic church contribution is better described as a user fee than charitable giving. If you read the article, the writer touches on these issues. So I suspect that if you agree with me that a basic church contribution isn't really what we mean when we think of charitable giving, the rankings would look very, very, very different.

And fourth...CP, what the hell got into your head that you thought this was appropriate to this thread? Use the friggin' new thread button!!!

Mods, please move this to its own thread. Thanks.

 

Topper's so right-wing, he's on a different bird. Stop me if I've told you that one.

 

Without illegal immigrants, your entire economy would collapse. You're one frijole famine away from being a banana republic.