A man earning $30,000 giving $300 to charity sacrifices more than a Billionaire giving away millions

[Tom Rinaldo]

20. I strongly disagree with your premise

Again it's a case of a false equation. Charity and sacrifice are different concepts though of course there is some relationship between them when you are literally talking about money going to people in need. Sure, absolutely, it is better when people in need can receive more essential charity than less, or put another way, when more people can be helped because there are more resources available to help them with.

That has nothing to do with sacrifice however. Sacrifice is real when something of significance is done without so that another can receive that which is essential. It is not just a made up feel good concept for people to flatter themselves with. Of course not all sacrifices are equal and I never said they were. But some acts of charity require no sacrifice whatsoever, just a caring heart which is great in and of itself, I am not putting that down. But it is not the same as doing without so that others can have.

Do you rise to object when politicians speak about the need for shared sacrifice when what that means to them is that some families will have to lose federal food assistance causing children to miss meals while others will "suffer" from allowing TEMPORARY tax cuts on the top 2% to lapse back to the rates that were paid during the Clinton economic expansion?: Will those 2% top income people think that families doing without food are making an undue fuss over their sacrifice when the top 2% would actually giving back more money individually to the government than the cost of the food stamps the low income family will no longer be receiving?