shimy said:
Mike hucabee comes to mind here a man that talked about love, kindness and charity but that pulled medicare from a teenage girl cause she got raped became pregnant and wanted an abortion.

There's a little more to it then that. The State constitution, at the time, was in conflict with Federal law. Huckabee chose to side with State law.

Another point i wanted to talk about was this, I noticed someone say that when taxes are low charity donations go up. I always thought that it was the same in the US as in canada but i guess it isnt. Here in canada when you fill your taxes out, you get certain deductions from the money you pay. Just to make it easy ill give an example. If i make 100 000, I am in the highest tax bracket, so i pay 50% tax. So my bill to the gov is 50 000. Now say during the year i made 5000 worth of donations. Most if not all of the 5000 is deducted from my taxes, so i only pay 45 000. Is that not how it works down south?

That was me that stated that. The problem is that there's usually a cap to how much of donations can be deducted. With lower taxes, people generally give more because they don't have to worry about the cap and they don't have to worry about getting hit with a huge tax bill at the end of the year. It's also a proven fact that tax receipts go up with lower taxes in place (thank you JFK and Reagan). Of course, it helps to cut spending at the same time.