Voluntarism and a suggested addendum to the progressive agenda

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Tea Partiers and the Spirit of Giving Charitable gifts are a cheerful protest vote against the growing state.By ARTHUR C. BROOKS
...The tea party activists...and...the nearly one-third of Americans who classify themselves as "supporters" of the movement, according to Gallup—endure endless abuse ...One particular line of attack focuses on their supposed selfishness.
...the millions of Americans who advocate for private entrepreneurship and limited government...may be stingy when it comes to giving away other people's money through state redistribution, but they are surprisingly generous when it comes to giving away their own money privately.
...When it comes to voluntarily spreading their own wealth around, a distinct "charity gap" opens up...Your intuition might tell you that people who favor government redistribution care most about the less fortunate and would give more to charity.....the data tell a different story....a large, nonpartisan survey asked people about both redistributive beliefs and charitable giving was 1996. ...the General Social Survey (GSS) found that those who were against higher levels of government redistribution privately gave four times as much money, on average, as people who were in favor of redistribution...they also gave about 3.5 times as much to nonreligious causes. Anti-redistributionists gave more even after correcting for differences in income, age, religion and education....there are other ways to give than with money. Here again the results may be different from what you might expect. The GSS in 2002 showed that those who said the government was "spending too much money on welfare" were more likely to donate blood than those who said the government was "spending too little money on welfare." The anti-redistributionists were also more likely to give someone directions on the street, return change mistakenly handed them by a cashier, and give food (or money) to a homeless person.
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****Given that liberals don't trust voluntarism and prefer to defer to the coercion of the IRS, let me propose an addition to the progressive agenda. The blood supply is too important to leave to invidivual altruism ( and we have seen that redistributionists don't donate much). Rather, the obligation to give blood ( or have it extracted ) should be levied as a tax to create sufficiency.

In the spirit of fairness of our progressive income tax code, the blood tax would exempt approximately fifty percent, the skinniest, in the population. Fat people have more blood and should obviously have more extracted from them than should thinner folk and the amount should be progressively higher for the fatter parts of the population if it is deemed that some do not "pay their fair share.". As the burden falls increasingly on a decreasing fraction of the population we might finally get an answer to the question: "How much is too much?"***
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