As the economy slows charities are some of the first to feel it, food banks in particular: donors tend to give less while more people need assistance feeding their families.
The situation at the Missoula Food Bank is no different. But, as Kyle Boelte and Anna M. Weaver show in this short multimedia piece entitled Stepping Up, the Food Bank is coping—for now.
It’s part of their podcast series Small Servings Documentaries. More here.
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It makes perfect sense.
If you know the government is coming after your hard-earned income, anyway, you naturally tighten the pursestrings.
It's unfortunate, because I've always preferred to donate directly, as much as I could, knowing that by direct donation, it wasn't going to be stolen by some bureaucratic political appointee, or wasted on some nonsensical social engineering.
One of two main reasons I quit the party.
Guess I'll just cling to God and guns and leave the important stuff to Der Master Race.
GDP growth since WWII:
Dem presidents: 4.4%
GOP presidents: 2.6%
Employment growth:
Dem presidents: 3%
GOP presidents: 1.3%
Unemployment rate:
Dems: -1.9%
GOP: 1%
Stock market growth:
Dems: 4.7% annualized (even higher if you remove WWII)
GOP: 2.9%
There's a lot more where this came from, but I think these numbers should suffice. Hardship has nothing or little to do with taxation. It's likely that GOP tax policy has never benefited 99% of the donors to the Food Bank anyhow.
I don't know where you get your numbers, but they're meaningless. Sounds like politically-slanted GAO or Brookings agitprop to me.
Macroeconomic processes are not instantaneous. The vast improvements brought by Reagan's policies didn't come to fruition during his tenure, so the intent of those numbers is sophistry. And trying to attribute a trend based on a few percentage points over the course of decades is just bad math.
As I said before, the smug elitists of Der Master Race don't tolerate the slightest deviation from their National Socialist edicts, so I am signing off permanently.
Enjoy your delusional state and keep preaching to the choir.
Also, it's hard to call something like annualized GDP growth agitprop--the Office of National Statistics doesn't lie on behalf of partisan groups, nor do organizations like the NYSE.