Why are the conservative posters here wealthier than their liberal counterparts?

[Spurminator]

You don't think there are lots of people on food stamps that have SUV's, plasma TV's, and Xboxes?

I'm sure there are several. And I'm positive that the anger about it far exceeds the degree of the problem, and is usually fueled by local news stories highlighting a bad example or two rather than personal experience. How many people on food stamps do you know?

[Uriel]

This isn't true. On average, liberal households earn 6% more in income than conservative households. Liberals also have higher IQ, higher educational attainment, and greater occupational prestige than conservatives.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...lly_cares.html

[Clipper Nation]

Welfare Cobra

[m>s]

This isn't true. On average, liberal households earn 6% more in income than conservative households. Liberals also have higher IQ, higher educational attainment, and greater occupational prestige than conservatives.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...lly_cares.html

Liberal women are also more likely to work and more conservative women take time off to raise kids, check the birth rates. Of course two people are going to earn more than one. So glad your type are dying off white conservatives are breeding above the replacement rate at 2.9 births per family.

also where were you when I poated the study that conservatives have higher testosterone and bigger testicles? It's no wonder you betas aren't breeding, you probably can't even produce sperm.

[CosmicCowboy]

This isn't true. On average, liberal households earn 6% more in income than conservative households. Liberals also have higher IQ, higher educational attainment, and greater occupational prestige than conservatives.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...lly_cares.html

uhhhh...some pretty blanket statements there. There is positively no cause and effect relationship between being liberal and being smarter. Boutons is a perfect example of that. As for your "occupational prestige" that and $5 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. I'll take the occupational cash, thank you very much.

[vy65]

This isn't true. On average, liberal households earn 6% more in income than conservative households. Liberals also have higher IQ, higher educational attainment, and greater occupational prestige than conservatives.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...lly_cares.html

lotsa irony here

[DarrinS]

This isn't true. On average, liberal households earn 6% more in income than conservative households. Liberals also have higher IQ, higher educational attainment, and greater occupational prestige than conservatives.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...lly_cares.html

Interesting article. You may want to read it.

[Uriel]

There is positively no cause and effect relationship between being liberal and being smarter. Boutons is a perfect example of that.

Yeah, you're right. It's being smarter that makes you more liberal.

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=240018

[Uriel]

Interesting article. You may want to read it.

It says that conservatives are more charitable. But I linked to it because of the statistic I used:

"It is not that conservatives have more money. Liberal families average 6 percent higher incomes than conservative families."

I'm merely citing my source.

[Uriel]

Liberal women are also more likely to work and more conservative women take time off to raise kids, check the birth rates. Of course two people are going to earn more than one. So glad your type are dying off white conservatives are breeding above the replacement rate at 2.9 births per family.

also where were you when I poated the study that conservatives have higher testosterone and bigger testicles? It's no wonder you betas aren't breeding, you probably can't even produce sperm.

So your barometer for success in life is how successful you are in breeding?

Okay.

[DarrinS]

It says that conservatives are more charitable. But I linked to it because of the statistic I used:

"It is not that conservatives have more money. Liberal families average 6 percent higher incomes than conservative families."

I'm merely citing my source.

So liberals are smarter, wealthier, but much less generous than conservatives?

[Uriel]

So liberals are smarter, wealthier, but much less generous than conservatives?

The far-left doesn't believe in charity, because as Karl Marx wrote, it merely acts as a band-aid to disguise the structural ills of society. The only way to truly cure these ills is by enacting major reform, in the form of policies that provide health care, education, and employment to all people, regardless of their socio-economic status. That is why liberals fight for these policies.

[DarrinS]

The far-left doesn't believe in charity, because as Karl Marx wrote, it merely acts as a band-aid to disguise the structural ills of society. The only way to truly cure these ills is by enacting major reform, in the form of policies that provide health care, education, and employment to all people, regardless of their socio-economic status. That is why liberals fight for these policies.

Marx? How'd that work out?

[Uriel]

Marx? How'd that work out?

I'm not defending Marx's ideas, nor am I defending the far-left. I happen to believe that charity is good, and I'm disappointed that liberals don't give more.

I do, however, think it is worth pointing out that it is the left that works to enact structural change that will benefit all of society, something that goes far beyond just giving donations.

[TeyshaBlue]

Nice. Somebody said that in a book. Ill wait for the actual study.

[Spurminator]

As two MIT political scientists determined in a 2013 paper, the inclination to give appears to have virtually no relationship to one's partisan or ideological views.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hilt...331-story.html

The MIT study also disputes liberals being more wealthy than conservatives.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.do ent.../who-gives.pdf

[boutons_deux]

it is the left that works to enact structural change that will benefit all of society

and the 1%/right-wing/Repugs do "work to enact structural change that will benefit all of society"?

Internet and the ignorant assholes it exposes is so entertaining.

[boutons_deux]

The Charitable-Giving Divide
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22FOB-wwln-t.html

[Uriel]

and the 1%/right-wing/Repugs do "work to enact structural change that will benefit all of society"?

Internet and the ignorant assholes it exposes is so entertaining.

Dude, that was precisely the point I was making. The left works to benefit all of society. The right doesn't. Read my post again.

[TeyshaBlue]

and the 1%/right-wing/Repugs do "work to enact structural change that will benefit all of society"?

Internet and the ignorant assholes it exposes is so entertaining.

Ridiculous conflation yields strawman. Nothing new here. Smh

[TeyshaBlue]

Dude, that was precisely the point I was making. The left works to benefit all of society. The right doesn't. Read my post again.

Lots of dots to connect. Better get started.

[vy65]

Ridiculous conflation yields strawman. Nothing new here. Smh

GFY

[DeadlyDynasty]

Lots of dots to connect. Better get started.

TB with the back from the dead goods

[Agloco]

I do fairly well, I mean, for being a lib and all.

[spurraider21]

Uriel do u have to bring iq into every thread?

we get it brah. u took an iq test recently

i'm already pretty obnoxious... i can imagine how much worse it would be if i paraded around campus wearing my LSAT score as a badge