Conservative Compassion; Liberal Lassitude

Columnist George Will reports that survey data show conservatives giving more money (both in amount and percentage of income), time and blood than liberals; especially telling is that those who told pollsters that government has a responsibility to equalize outcomes gave but 1/4 of what their ideological opposites gave.  This is true, despite liberal families having on average 6 percent more income than their conservative counterparts.  Will explains that those who think government should do the giving feel less need to do so themselves.  Like Al Gore, who gave but 0.2 percent of his income to charity in 2000, they gave at the office--with taxpayers' money.