1. He was elected because Jimmy Carter was a f'ing disaster. Democrats? Republicans? Nobody knows WTF that even means anymore.
2. No.
3. Bulljive.
People who are the center-right give far more to charity than those on the left, based on proportion of income. You are a "data guy" and I HAVE DATA. One example would be your presumed* hero Bill Gates. He gives far less of his percentage of income than I do. ONE example.
I'd much rather ME distribute my money than some dumbass in DC. I'm good at. Those in DC SUCK at it.
* I <<think>> I know where you roll. Please give 20% of your income to charity, like I do, and have done for years.
Volunteer too. 15 hours per week. Rock on.
Points 1-3 don't really refute anything I said, or even discuss them. In fact, I will also agree with point 1. JC had a rough presidency, some his fault, some not. But RR did focus on the cold war during his campaign.
As for charitable giving, I'm not sure what that has do with anything. I found it interesting so I looked it up. Turns out the difference is ... church. More Republicans go to church regularly than democrats do, and donate accordingly. And the difference wasn't huge, either. ($60-$100 per year more.)
Who said Bill Gates is my hero? And your 1% number? I had to look that up as well. He gave $4.78B to his foundation in 2019. His entire net worth is in the neighborhood of $100B, so I can't figure out how that 1% was arrived upon. Perhaps if you cherry pick. He only gave $138M in 2018, but will likely have donated over $50B to his foundation by the end of this year. He also plans on giving away the vast majority of his wealth before he dies or after he dies.
I suppose you're trying to say that you vote republican because you prefer to give away your money as you see fit, as opposed to paying taxes? Well, I think we all feel that way. But if we look through reality tinted glasses, our government has massive debt.
Here's data for you. After we pay for Social Security, Medicare, interest on our debt, and defense, we are already deficit spending. That means that
every other thing the government spends money on is deficit spending. Mind you, this was at a time of economic prosperity. Bottom line: We have to eventually raise federal taxes. Nobody likes them. Nobody wants to. But we sorta have to.
uilty as charged for not giving 20%, although I hope to do that eventually. But let's stay on topic. haha